Job 26:10 BSB — MannaFest

Job 26:10

He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

BSB

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ASV

He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.

KJV

He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

He hath compassed the waters with bounds - Perhaps this refers merely to the circle of the horizon, the line that terminates light and commences darkness, called here עד תכלית אור עם חשך ad tachlith or im chosech, “until the completion of light with darkness.” Or, if we take תכלית tachlith here to be the same with תכלת techeleth, Exo 25:4, and elsewhere, which we translate blue, it may mean that sombre sky-blue appearance of the horizon at the time of twilight, i.e., between light and darkness; the line where the one is terminating and the other commencing.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

We see too the care which Providence takes of the poor sinful inhabitants of the earth, who, though obnoxious to his justice and lying at his mercy, are thus preserved from being overwhelmed, as they were once by the waters of a flood, and will continue to be so, because they are reserved unto fire.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"Sheol" comes from a Hebrew root--"ask," because it is insatiable (Pr 27:20); or "ask as a loan to be returned," implying Sheol is but a temporary abode, previous to the resurrection; so for English Version "formed," the Septuagint and Chaldee translate; shall be born, or born again, implying the dead are to be given back from Sheol and born again into a new state [MAGEE].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

When the light falls on our horizon, the other hemisphere is dark. UMBREIT and MAURER translate "He has most perfectly (literally, to perfection) drawn the bound (taken from the first clause) between light and darkness" (compare Ge 1:4, 6, 9): where the bounding of the light from darkness is similarly brought into proximity with the bounding of the waters.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
חֹֽק־	chok-	a limit	H2706 →
חָ֭ג	chag	he has drawn a circle	H2328 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
פְּנֵי־	pe.nei-	[the] surface of	H6440 →
מָ֑יִם	Ma.yim	[the] waters	H4325 →
עַד־	'ad-	to	H5704 →
תַּכְלִ֖ית	takh.Lit	[the] end of	H8503 →
א֣וֹר	'or	light	H216 →
עִם־	'im-	with	H5973 →
חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃	Cho.shekh	darkness	H2822 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 5:22
Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves…
leads to
- Psalms 104:9
  You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Job 38:10–11
  when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
Through
Genesis 8:22
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
leads to
- James 5:7
  Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
- Jeremiah 5:24
  They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
- Psalms 74:16–17
  The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
- Jeremiah 31:35
  Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the…
- Song of Solomon 2:11–12
  For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
Through
Psalms 33:7
He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.
leads to
- Genesis 1:9–10
  And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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06About Job

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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About Job