the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Job 26:8
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He wraps the rain in his thick clouds, and the clouds don't burst with the weight.
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.
He wraps up the waters in his thick clouds, but the clouds do not break under their weight.
He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, And the cloud is not burst under them.
"He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once], And the cloud does not burst under them.
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.
`Which God byndith watris in her cloudis, that tho breke not out togidere dounward.
He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
God stores water in clouds, but they don't burst,
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.
By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
He binds up the water in his thick clouds, yet no cloud is torn apart by it.
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
He fills the thick clouds with water. But he does not let its heavy weight break the clouds open.
He bindeth up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Hee bindeth vp the waters in his thicke clouds, and the cloud is not rent vnder them.
He holds the waters in His clouds, and the cloud does not break under them.
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not torn open by them.
He bindeth the waters in his cloudes, and the cloude is not broken vnder them.
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
It is God who fills the clouds with water and keeps them from bursting with the weight.
Who bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent beneath them;
He bindeth up the waters in his clouds, so that they break not out and fall down together.
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
He byndeth the water in his cloudes, & the cloude is not broken vnder them.
binding water in his clouds, and the cloud is not rent under it.
He wraps up the water in his clouds,yet the clouds do not burst beneath its weight.
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, And the cloud is not burst under them.
He ties up the water in its clouds, and the cloud is not torn open beneath it.
He binds up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud does not burst under them.
Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.
He byndeth ye water in his cloudes, that they fall not downe together.
"He wraps up the waters in His clouds, And the cloud does not burst under them.
He binds up the water in His thick clouds, Yet the clouds are not broken under it.
"He wraps up the waters in His clouds, And the cloud does not burst under them.
He wraps up the waters in His clouds,And the cloud does not break out under them.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
bindeth up: Job 36:29, Job 38:9, Job 38:37, Genesis 1:6, Genesis 1:7, Psalms 135:7, Proverbs 30:4, Jeremiah 10:13
thick clouds: Job 37:11-16, Psalms 18:10, Psalms 18:11
and the cloud: Isaiah 5:6
Reciprocal: Job 28:11 - bindeth Job 37:16 - the balancings Psalms 147:8 - covereth
Cross-References
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds,.... The clouds are of his making; when he utters his voice, or gives the word of command, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and the vapours he exhales from the ends of the earth and forms them into clouds, and they are his chariots, in which he rides up and down in the heavens, and waters his gardens and plantations on earth; see Jeremiah 10:13; which may be said to be thick in comparison of the air, in which they are; otherwise they are but thin, and the thinner they are, the greater wonder it is that the waters, and such a heavy body of them, should be bound up in them, as there often is; and which is bound up, held, and retained therein, as anything bound up in a sack or bag, or in a garment, or the skirt of a man's coat; see Proverbs 30:4; and what is still more marvellous:
and the cloud is not rent under them; under the waters, and through the weight of them; which, if it was, would fall in vast water spouts, and were such to fall upon the earth, as it may be supposed they did at the general deluge, they would destroy man and beast, and wash off and wash away the things of the earth: but God has so ordered it in his infinite wisdom, and by his almighty power, that clouds should not be thus rent, but fall in small drops and gentle showers, as if they passed through a sieve or colander, whereby the earth is refreshed, and made fruitful; see Job 36:26.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds - That is, he seems to do it, or to collect the waters in the clouds, as in bottles or vessels. The clouds appear to hold the waters, as if bound up, until he is pleased to send them drop by drop upon the earth.
And the cloud is not rent under them - The wonder which Job here expresses is, that so large a quantity of water as is poured down from the clouds, should be held suspended in the air without seeming to rend the cloud, and falling all at once. His image is that of a bottle, or vessel, filled with water, suspended in the air, and which is not rent. What were the views which he had of the clouds, of course it is impossible now to say. If he regarded them as they are, as vapors, or if he considered them to be a more solid substance, capable of holding water, there was equal ground for wonder. In the former case, his amazement would have arisen from the fact, that so light, fragile, and evanescent a substance as vapor should contain so large a quantity of water; in the latter case, his wonder would have been that such a substance should distil its contents drop by drop. There is equal reason for admiring the wisdom of God in the production of rain, now that the cause is understood. The clouds are collections of vapors. They contain moisture, or vapor, which ascends from the earth, and which is held in suspension when in small particles in the clouds; as, when a room is swept, the small particles of dust will be seen to float in the room. When these small particles are attracted, and form masses as large as drops, the air will no longer sustain them, and they fall to the earth. Man never could have devised a way for causing rain; and the mode in which it is provided that large quantities of water shall be borne from one place to another in the air, and made to fall when it is needed, by which the vapors that ascend from the ocean shall not be suffered to fall again into the ocean, but shall be carried on to the land, is adapted to excite our admiration of the wisdom of God now, no less than it was in the time of Job.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 26:8. He bindeth up the waters — Drives the aqueous particles together, which were raised by evaporation, so that, being condensed, they form clouds which float in the atmosphere, till, meeting with strong currents of wind, or by the agency of the electric fluid, they are farther condensed; and then, becoming too heavy to be sustained in the air, fall down in the form of rain, when, in this poetic language, the cloud is rent under them.
