Job 38:10
And prescribed for it My decree, and set bars and doors,
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
11And said: 'Thus far shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed'?
Cross References
Genesis 9:15that I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Job 41:14(41-6) Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
Psalms 104:9Thou didst set a bound which they should not pass over, that they might not return to cover the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22Fear ye not Me? saith the LORD; Will ye not tremble at My presence? Who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it cannot pass; and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though 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 →