Job 38:11
And say, To here you come, and no more, || And a command is placed || On the pride of your billows.
Literal Standard 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
10And I measure My statute over it, || And place bar and doors,
12Have you commanded morning since your days? Do you cause the dawn to know its place?
Cross References
Job 1:22In all this Job has not sinned, nor given folly to God.
Job 26:10He has placed a limit on the waters, || To the boundary of light with darkness.
Psalms 76:10For the fierceness of man praises You, || You gird on the remnant of fierceness.
Psalms 93:3Floods have lifted up, O YHWH, || Floods have lifted up their voice, || Floods lift up their breakers.
Proverbs 8:29In His setting for the sea its limit, || And the waters do not transgress His command, || In His decreeing the foundations of 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 →