Job 38:10
I set its limits, marking its borders.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
In Context
9Who clothed it with clouds, and wrapped it in a blanket of deep darkness?
11I said, ‘You may come here, but no farther. Here is where your proud waves stop.’
Cross References
Genesis 9:15it will remind me of my agreement between me and you and every kind of living creature that floodwaters won't ever again destroy all life.
Job 41:14Who can open its jaws? Its teeth are terrifying!
Psalms 104:9You set a boundary for the oceans so they would not come back and cover the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22Aren't you afraid of what I can do? declares the Lord. Don't you think you should tremble in my presence? I am the one who set up the shore as the sea's boundary, an everlasting limit that it can't cross. The waves crash against it, but they can't defeat it. They roar, but they can't cross the barrier.
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 →