He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
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Gill's Exposition
He hath compassed the waters with bounds,.... Not the waters above the firmament, compassed by that, as if Job was contemplating on and discoursing about what is done in the heavens above; though the…
Barnes' Notes
He hath compassed the waters with bounds - The word rendered “compassed” (חוּג chûg), means to describe a circle - to mark out with a compass; and the reference is to the form of the horizon, which…
The truth received a great deal of light from the dispute between Job and his friends concerning those points about which they differed; but now they are upon a subject in which they were all agreed,…
Cambridge Bible
The verse reads,
He hath drawn as a circle a bound upon the face of the waters,
At the confines of light and darkness.
The second clause is literally; even to the confines of light with(or, by)…
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