Job 38:10

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 cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

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)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 5:22

    Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

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  • Psalms 104:9

    Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

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  • Psalms 33:7

    He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

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  • Job 26:10

    He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

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  • Genesis 1:9–10

    And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

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  • Genesis 9:15

    And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

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