Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight. New Living Translation He wraps the rain in his thick clouds, and the clouds don’t burst with the weight. English Standard Version He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them. Berean Standard Bible He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight. King James Bible He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. New King James Version He binds up the water in His thick clouds, Yet the clouds are not broken under it. New American Standard Bible “He wraps up the waters in His clouds, And the cloud does not burst under them. NASB 1995 “He wraps up the waters in His clouds, And the cloud does not burst under them. NASB 1977 “He wraps up the waters in His clouds; And the cloud does not burst under them. Legacy Standard Bible He wraps up the waters in His clouds, And the cloud does not break out under them. Amplified Bible “He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once], And the cloud does not burst under them. Christian Standard Bible He wraps up the water in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst beneath its weight. Holman Christian Standard Bible He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst beneath their weight. American Standard Version He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them. Aramaic Bible in Plain English He has bound the waters in his clouds and a cloud does not burst under them Brenton Septuagint Translation binding water in his clouds, and the cloud is not rent under it. Contemporary English Version God stores water in clouds, but they don't burst, Douay-Rheims Bible He bindeth up the waters in his clouds, so that they break not out and fall down together. English Revised Version He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. GOD'S WORD® Translation He holds the water in his thick clouds, and the clouds don't [even] split under its [weight]. Good News Translation It is God who fills the clouds with water and keeps them from bursting with the weight. International Standard Version "He restricts the waters within clouds and the clouds don't burst open under them. JPS Tanakh 1917 He bindeth up the waters in His thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them. Literal Standard Version Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, | And the cloud is not burst under them. Majority Standard Bible He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight. New American Bible He binds up the waters in his clouds, yet the cloud is not split by their weight; NET Bible He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them. New Revised Standard Version He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not torn open by them. New Heart English Bible He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them. Webster's Bible Translation He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. World English Bible He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them. Young's Literal Translation Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job: Who Can Understand God's Majesty?…7He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing. 8He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight. 9He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.… Cross References Job 37:11 He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them. Psalm 147:8 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills. Proverbs 30:4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son--surely you know! Treasury of Scripture He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. bindeth up Job 36:29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? Job 38:9,37 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, … Genesis 1:6,7 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters… thick clouds Job 37:11-16 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud: … Psalm 18:10,11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind… and the cloud Isaiah 5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. Jump to Previous Bindeth Binding Binds Burst Cloud Clouds Rent Shut Thick Waters Way Weight WrapsJump to Next Bindeth Binding Binds Burst Cloud Clouds Rent Shut Thick Waters Way Weight WrapsJob 26 1. Job, reproving the uncharitable spirit of Bildad5. acknowledges the power of God to be infinite and unsearchable (8) He bindeth up the waters.--The idea of the waters being bound up in the clouds, so that the clouds are not rent thereby, is similar to that in Genesis 1:7. The conception is that of a vast treasury of water above the visible sky, which is kept there in apparent defiance of what we know as the laws of gravitation, and which all experience would show was liable to fall of itself.Verse 8. - He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; i.e. he makes the clouds, that we see floating in the atmosphere, contain and hold the waters on which the productiveness of the earth depends, and which he restrains, or allows to fall in fertilizing rain, at his pleasure (comp. 1 Kings 17:1). And the cloud is not rent under them. The metaphor is, no doubt, drawn from those water-skins, so well known in the East, and especially in Arabia, in which men stored the water for their journeys and other needs, which were liable to be "rent" by the weight of the liquid within them. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew He wraps upצֹרֵֽר־ (ṣō·rêr-) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 6887: To bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow, scant, or cramped the waters מַ֥יִם (ma·yim) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen in His clouds, בְּעָבָ֑יו (bə·‘ā·ḇāw) Preposition-b | Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 5645: An envelope, darkness, a, cloud, a copse yet the clouds עָנָ֣ן (‘ā·nān) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6051: A cloud, the nimbus, thunder-cloud do not וְלֹא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no burst נִבְקַ֖ע (niḇ·qa‘) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1234: To cleave, to rend, break, rip, open under their own weight. תַּחְתָּֽם׃ (taḥ·tām) Preposition | third person masculine plural Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of Links Job 26:8 NIVJob 26:8 NLT Job 26:8 ESV Job 26:8 NASB Job 26:8 KJV Job 26:8 BibleApps.com Job 26:8 Biblia Paralela Job 26:8 Chinese Bible Job 26:8 French Bible Job 26:8 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 26:8 He binds up the waters in his (Jb) |
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