Job 38:11
And said, Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther, And here shall thy proud waves be stayed!
Noyes 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 appointed for it my bound, And fixed for it bars and doors;
12Hast thou, in thy life, given charge to the morning, Or caused the day-spring to know its place,
Cross References
Job 1:22In all this Job sinned not, nor uttered vain words against God.
Job 26:10He hath drawn a circular bound upon the waters, To the confines of light and darkness.
Psalms 76:10The wrath of man shall praise thee, When thou girdest on the whole of thy wrath!
Psalms 93:3The floods, O LORD! lift up, The floods lift up their voice; The floods lift up their roaring!
Proverbs 8:29When he gave to the sea its bounds, that the waters should not pass their border; When he marked out the foundations of the earth,—
Jeremiah 5:22Will ye not fear me, saith Jehovah? Will ye not tremble before me, Who appointed the sand a bound to the sea, A perpetual barrier, which it cannot pass? Though the waves thereof toss themselves, Yet do 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 →