Job 38:11
And I said : Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors :
12Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?
Cross References
Job 1:22In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any foolish thing against God.
Job 26:10He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come to an end.
Psalms 76:10When God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.
Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,
Proverbs 8:29When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when be balanced the foundations of 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 →