Job 38:10
And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
In Context
9In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,
11And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'
Cross References
Genesis 9:15and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters become no more a deluge to destroy all flesh;
Job 41:14The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth [are] terrible.
Psalms 104:9A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not 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 →