Job 38:10
When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
In Context
9When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it;
11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Cross References
Genesis 9:15and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall not henceforth 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 hast set a bound which they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22Will ye not fear me? saith Jehovah. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have set the sand a bound for the sea by a perpetual decree, and it shall not pass it? and its waves toss themselves, but they do not prevail; and they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
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 →