New Revised Standard Version
He has described a circle on the face of the waters, at the boundary between light and darkness.

Contemporary English Version
On the surface of the ocean, God has drawn a boundary line between light and darkness.

New American Bible
He has marked out a circle on the surface of the deep as the boundary of light and darkness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come to an end.

He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come to an end.

compassed

Job 38:8-11 Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb: . . .

Psalm 33:7 Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying up the depths in storehouses.

Psalm 104:6-9 The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand. . . .

Proverbs 8:29 I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;

Jeremiah 5:22 Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.

until

Genesis 8:22 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.

Isaiah 54:9,10 This thing is to me as in the days of Noe, to whom I swore, that I would no more bring in the waters of Noe upon the earth: so have I sworn not to be angry with thee, and not to rebuke thee. . . .

day and night come to an end.