Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Who bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent beneath them;
New American Standard Bible
And the cloud does not burst under them.
King James Version
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Holman Bible
yet the clouds do not burst beneath their weight.
International Standard Version
"He restricts the waters within clouds and the clouds don't burst open under them.
A Conservative Version
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
American Standard Version
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.
Amplified
“He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once],
And the cloud does not burst under them.
Bible in Basic English
By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
Darby Translation
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
Julia Smith Translation
He bound up the waters in his clouds, and the cloud was not rent under them.
King James 2000
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not torn under them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[He] ties up [the] water in its clouds, and [the] cloud is not torn open beneath it.
Modern King James verseion
He binds up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud is not torn under them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He bindeth the water in his clouds, and the cloud is not broken under them.
NET Bible
He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.
New Heart English Bible
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
Webster
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
World English Bible
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
Youngs Literal Translation
Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 26:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Power Over Creation
7 Who stretcheth out the north over emptiness, hangeth the earth upon nothingness; 8 Who bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent beneath them; 9 Who shutteth-in the face of the throne, he spreadeth over it his cloud;
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Cross References
Proverbs 30:4
Who hath ascended the heavens and then descended? Who hath gathered the wind into his two hands? Who hath wrapped up the waters in a mantle? Who hath set up all the ends of the earth? What is his name and what the name of his son, when thou knowest?
Genesis 1:6-7
And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a means of dividing, between waters and waters,
Job 36:29
But surely none can understand the burstings of the cloud, the crashing of his pavilion!
Job 37:11-16
Also, with moisture, burdeneth he the thick cloud, He disperseth his lightning-cloud;
Job 38:9
When I put a cloud as the garment thereof, and a thick cloud as the swaddling-band thereof;
Job 38:37
Who can count the thin clouds, in wisdom? And, the bottles of the heavens, who can empty out;
Psalm 18:10-11
Then he rode on a cherub, and flew, and darted on the wings of the wind;
Psalm 135:7
Causing vapours to ascend from the end of the earth, - Lightnings for the rain, hath he made, bringing forth wind out of his treasuries.
Isaiah 5:6
And I will make it a waste; - It shall be neither pruned nor hoed, But there shall come up briars and thorns, - And upon the clouds, will I lay a charge, That they rain thereon no rain.
Jeremiah 10:13
At the voice that he uttered, there was a tumult of waters in the heavens, And he caused vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth, - The lightnings for rain, he made, And brought forth wind out of his treasuries.