Job 26:8

6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.

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

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
KJV
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
WEB
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
ASV
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.
DARBY
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
BLB
Binding the waters in His thick clouds, and the clouds are not broken apart under them,
ÅB
Han binder vannene sammen i sine skyer, og skyene brister ikke under dem.
OTB
Han binder opp vannene i sine skyer,
likevel brister ikke skyene under deres vekt.
B1930
Han binder vannene sammen i sine skyer, og skyene brister ikke under dem.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Job 37:11–16

    He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

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  • Proverbs 30:4

    Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son— surely you know!

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  • Jeremiah 10:13

    When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

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  • Isaiah 5:6

    I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

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  • Psalms 135:7

    He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

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  • Job 38:37

    Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

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  • Psalms 18:10–11

    He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

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  • Job 38:9

    when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

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