Job 38:11
and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
In Context
10when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
12In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
Cross References
Job 1:22In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.
Job 26:10He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
Psalms 76:10Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
Psalms 93:3The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
Proverbs 8:29when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross 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 →