Job 38:10
When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
In Context
9When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the swadeling bands thereof:
11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.
Cross References
Genesis 9:15Then will I remember my couenant, which is betweene me and you, and betweene euery liuing thing in all flesh, and there shalbe no more waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.
Job 41:14The members of his bodie are ioyned: they are strong in themselues, and cannot be mooued.
Psalms 104:9But thou hast set them a bounde, which they shall not passe: they shall not returne to couer the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22Feare ye not me, saith the Lord? or will ye not be afraide at my presence, which haue placed the sand for the bounds of the sea by the perpetuall decree that it cannot passe it, and though the waues thereof rage, yet can they not preuaile, though they roare, yet can they not passe ouer 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 →