Job 38:10
and marked out for it my bound, and set bars and doors,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
In Context
9when I made clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
11and said, This far thou shall come, but no further, and here thy proud waves shall be stayed?
Cross References
Genesis 9:15And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Job 41:14Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
Psalms 104:9Thou have set a bound that they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22Do ye not fear me? says LORD. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? And though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet they cannot prevai
Matthew Henry on Job 38:5-12
The Creation of the World. ( b. c. 1520.) 4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9 When I made the… Read the whole commentary →