Job 38:10
I encircled it with my limits, and I positioned its bars and doors.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
In Context
9when I stationed a cloud as its garment and wrapped it in a mist as if swaddling an infant?
Cross References
Genesis 9:15And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that enlivens flesh. And there will no longer be waters from a great flood to wipe away all that is flesh.
Job 41:14The parts of his body work in harmony together. He will send lightning bolts against him, and they will not be carried to another place.
Psalms 104:9which he assigned to Abraham, and his oath to Isaac.
Jeremiah 5:22So then, will you not fear me, says the Lord. And will you not have sorrow before my face? I have placed the shore as a limit for the sea, as an everlasting precept that it will not transgress. And its waves will crash, but they will not prevail; and its waves will swell, but they will not go across.
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 →