Job 38:10
marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
In Context
9when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
11and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
Cross References
Genesis 9:15I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Job 41:14Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
Psalms 104:9You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22Don’t you fear me?’ says the LORD; ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t 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 →