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Job 26:10 — He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

compassed		Job 38:8-11; Psa 33:7; Psa 104:6-9; Pro 8:29; Jer 5:22
until		Gen 8:22; Isa 54:9,10
day and night come to an end		Heb. end of light with darkness.

Correlating Passages

compassed

	Job 38:8	Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?
	Job 38:9	When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
	Job 38:10	And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,
	Job 38:11	And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
	Psa 33:7	He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
	Psa 104:6	Thou coveredst it with the deep as [with] a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
	Psa 104:7	At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
	Psa 104:8	They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
	Psa 104:9	Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
	Pro 8:29	When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
	Jer 5:22	Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

until

	Gen 8:22	While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
	Isa 54:9	For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto me: for [as] I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
	Isa 54:10	For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.

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Scott, Thomas. "Job 26:10," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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