Job 38:11
And I said: “This far you will approach, and you will proceed no further, and here you will break your swelling waves.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
In Context
10I encircled it with my limits, and I positioned its bars and doors.
12Did you, after your birth, command the birth of the sun and show the sunrise its place?
Cross References
Job 1:22In all this, Job did not sin by his lips, nor did he speak any foolish thing against God.
Job 26:10He has set limits around the waters, until light and darkness shall reach their limit.
Psalms 76:10And would God ever forget to be merciful? Or, would he, in his wrath, restrict his mercies?
Psalms 93:3How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners glory?
Proverbs 8:29when he encompassed the sea within its limits, and laid down a law for the waters, lest they transgress their limits; when he weighed the foundations of the earth.
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 →