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?
Read in contextPsalms 104:9
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Read in contextPsalms 33:7
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Read in contextJob 26:10
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
Read in contextGenesis 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.
Read in contextGenesis 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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