Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 26:8

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 26:8 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 26:8. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the Book of Job, this verse means that God can hold lots of water in the clouds without letting them burst open. It's like how you can keep juice in a cup without spilling it.

Job 26:8: He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 11:3

Contradicts the idea of God withholding water by saying when clouds are full of rain, they empty upon the earth.

Ecclesiastes 11:3: If the clouds be full of rain, they empty [themselves] upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

Contradiction with Genesis 7:11

Describes God releasing vast amounts of water during the flood, contradicting the reserve implied in Job 26:8.

Genesis 7:11: In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. [windows: or, floodgates]

Contradiction with 1 Kings 18:45

Depicts clouds delivering a heavy rain contrary to God binding up water in Job 26:8.

1 Kings 18:45: And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

Contradiction with Isaiah 55:10

States that rain and snow come down from heaven, contradicting the idea of God retaining water as in Job 26:8.

Isaiah 55:10: For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
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