He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
The word "compassed" comes from the Hebrew word "chug" which means circle or sphere.
When He prepared the heavens, I was there: when He set a compass upon the face of the depth:
It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; Who stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
(God is asking Job a question) Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? It is turned as a clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Long ago when man thought the earth was flat and that the sun rotated around the earth, the Bible had it right all along. Infact when Christopher Columbus in 1492 went sailing across the ocean; man and scientist of the day for the most part thought the earth was flat. Interesting that the book of Job was (according to many scholars) written some 1.400 years before the birth of Jesus.
He alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;
Less then 100 years ago man didn't even know there were other galaxies outside the Milky Way. In 1925 Edwin Hubble discovered that there is even more galaxies beyond our own. Then in 1929 Edwin Hubble discovered that these galaxies are moving away from each other giving us an expanding universe.
It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; Who stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Thus says God the Lord, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, Who breath to the people on it, And spirit to those who walk on it:
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: "I am the Lord, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;
I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even My hands, have stretched out the heavens , and all their host have I commanded.
Isaiah 51:13, Jeremiah 10:12, Jeremiah 51:15, Zechariah 12:1
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down , as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Second Law of Thermodynamics/Law of Increased Entropy: Everything is losing energy or wearing out.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein die in like manner, but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
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