Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.

New American Standard Bible

“He has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters
At the boundary of light and darkness.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

He laid out the horizon on the surface of the waters
at the boundary between light and darkness.

International Standard Version

He has delimited a boundary over the surface of the oceans as a limit between light and darkness.

A Conservative Version

He has described a boundary upon the face of the waters, to the confines of light and darkness.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“He has inscribed a circular limit (the horizon) on the face of the waters
At the boundary between light and darkness.

Bible in Basic English

By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

Darby Translation

He hath traced a fixed circle over the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness.

Julia Smith Translation

He marked out with a compass the law upon the face of the waters, even till the end of light with darkness..

King James 2000

He has drawn a circle on the waters at the boundary where the day and night come together.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{He has described a circle} on [the] face of [the] water {between light and darkness}.

Modern King James verseion

He has described a circle on the surface of the waters to the boundary of light with darkness.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

New Heart English Bible

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

The Emphasized Bible

A, boundary, hath he encircled on the face of the waters, as far as where light ends in darkness;

Webster

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

World English Bible

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חוּג 
Chuwg 
Usage: 1

the waters
פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

until the day
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

and night
חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

God's Power Over Creation

9 Taking hold of the face of the throne, Spreading over it His cloud. 10 A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness. 11 Pillars of the heavens do tremble, And they wonder because of His rebuke.

Cross References

Job 38:8-11

And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

Proverbs 8:29

In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,

Psalm 33:7

Gathering as a heap the waters of the sea, Putting in treasuries the depths.

Jeremiah 5:22

Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.

Genesis 8:22

during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.'

Psalm 104:6-9

The abyss! as with clothing Thou hast covered it, Above hills do waters stand.

Isaiah 54:9-10

For, the waters of Noah is this to Me, In that I have sworn -- the waters of Noah Do not pass again over the earth -- So I have sworn, Wrath is not upon thee, Nor rebuke against thee.

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