Job 38:10
And I measure My statute over it, || And place bar and doors,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
In Context
9In My making a cloud its clothing, || And thick darkness its swaddling band,
11And say, To here you come, and no more, || And a command is placed || On the pride of your billows.
Cross References
Genesis 9:15and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters no longer become a flood to destroy all flesh;
Job 41:14Who has opened the doors of his face? Around his teeth [are] terrible.
Psalms 104:9You have set a border, they do not pass over, || They do not turn back to cover the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” A declaration of YHWH; “Are you not pained from My presence? Who has made sand the border of the sea, || A perpetual limit, and it does not pass over it, || They shake themselves, and they are not able, || Indeed, its billows have sounded, and they do not pass over.
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 →