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Job 38:10

CreationGod's power and sovereignty

8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

9 when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

11 and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

12 In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

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BSB
when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
KJV
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
WEB
marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
ASV
And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,
DARBY
When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,
BLB
when I broke forth over it My decree, and set in place a bar and doors,
ÅB
og merket av en grense for det og satte bom og dører
OTB
da jeg satte grenser for det
og satte bommer og dører,
B1930
og merket av en grense for det og satte bom og dører

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Jeremiah 5:22

    Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.

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  • Psalms 104:9

    You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.

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  • Psalms 33:7

    He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.

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  • Job 26:10

    He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

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  • Genesis 1:9–10

    And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.

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  • Genesis 9:15

    I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

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