Job (Wisdom Literature, Old Testament) · Wisdom poetry
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God inscribes a boundary (חֹק) on the face of the waters, at the confines/limit of light and darkness.
The image is a compass-inscribed limit at the light/dark border. Both readings are inferences from that image; the text itself describes a drawn boundary.
A drawn circle bounding the seas, marking the horizon where light meets darkness at the edge of a bounded, level earth.
The day/night terminator on a rotating globe traces a moving circle across the face of the waters.
A circle; a circuit; a compass-drawn arc or vault. BDB gives 'circle, vault'. Distinct from a three-dimensional ball.
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