Job Chapter 26 verse 8 Holy Bible
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.
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By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
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He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
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He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
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He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
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He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, And the cloud is not burst under them.
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Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.
