Holy Scripture

Job 26:8

A church father on this verse
“"Binding water in his clouds, and the cloud is not dispersed under it." In fact, if he does not order the clouds to rain, they do not release rain on earth in the quantity that has been ordered by him.”
Olympiodorus of Alexandria, 6th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 26:7-9

Source: Septuagint

Original

8Binding water in his clouds, And the cloud is not rent under it.

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6Hell is naked before him, And destruction has no covering.

7He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, And he upon nothing hangs the earth;

— Job 26:8 —

9He keeps back the face of his throne, Stretching out his cloud upon it.

10He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance, Until the end of light and darkness.

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