Job 26:10
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He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
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This is Job's short reply to Bildad's short discourse, in which he is so far from contradicting him that he confirms what he had said, and out-does him in magnifying God and setting forth his power, to show what reason he had still to say, as he did (Job 13:2), "What you know, the same do I know also." I. He shows that Bildad's discourse was foreign to the matter he was discoursing of - though very true and good, yet not to the purpose (Job 26:2-4). II. That it was needless to the person he was discoursing with; for he knew it, and believed it, and could speak of it as well as he and better, and could add to the proofs which he had produced of God's power and greatness, which he does in the rest of his discourse (Job 26:5-13), concluding that, when they had both said what they could, all came short of the merit of the subject and it was still far from being exhausted (Job 26:14).
Open source ↗26:10 created the horizon: See Gen 1:6-10; Ps 104:6-9; Prov 8:29.
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when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
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 surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”