Job 38:10
I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors :
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
In Context
9when I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?
Cross References
Genesis 9:15And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.
Job 41:14The members of his flesh cleave one to another : he shall send lightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place.
Psalms 104:9Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; neither shall they return to cover the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22Will 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.
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 →