Job 38:11
And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
In Context
10And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,
12Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?
Cross References
Job 1:22In all this Job hath not sinned, nor given folly to God.
Job 26:10A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.
Psalms 76:10For the fierceness of man praiseth Thee, The remnant of fierceness Thou girdest on.
Psalms 93:3Floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, Floods have lifted up their voice, Floods lift up their breakers.
Proverbs 8:29In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of 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 →