Job 38:11
I said, ‘You may come here, but no farther. Here is where your proud waves stop.’
Free Bible 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 set its limits, marking its borders.
12During your lifetime, have you ever ordered the morning to begin?
Cross References
Job 1:22In all of this Job did not sin, nor blame God.
Job 26:10On the surface of the waters he set a boundary; he set a limit dividing light from darkness.
Psalms 76:10Even human anger against you makes you look glorious, for you wear it alike a crown.
Psalms 93:3The floods have raised up, Lord; the floods have raised their voices; the floods have raised up their crashing waves.
Proverbs 8:29when he set limits on the sea so that the waters would not go farther than he ordered, and when he laid out the foundations of 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 →