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Job 38:10
10And marked for it My [appointed] boundary And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines],
Job 38:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
- New International Version (NIV)when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,
- English Standard Version (ESV)and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors,
- New King James Version (NKJV)When I fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors;
Context of Job 38:10
8“Or who enclosed the sea with doors When it burst forth and went out of the womb; 9When I made the clouds its garment And thick darkness its swaddling band, And marked for it My [appointed] boundary And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines], 11And said, ‘This far you shall come, but no farther; And here your proud waves shall stop’? 12“Since your days began, have you ever commanded the morning, And caused the dawn to know its place,
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וָאֶשְׁבֹּ֣ר עָלָ֣יו חֻקִּ֑י וָֽ֝אָשִׂ֗ים בְּרִ֣יחַ וּדְלָתָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 38:10
- Job 26:10He has inscribed a circular limit (the horizon) on the face of the waters At the boundary between light and darkness.
- Genesis 1:9Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place [of standing, pooling together], and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
- Genesis 9:15and I will [compassionately] remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again will the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Psalms 104:9You set a boundary [for the waters] that they may not cross over, So that they will not return to cover the earth.
- Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lord. ‘Do you not tremble [in awe] in My presence? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, An eternal decree and a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass. Though the waves [of the sea] toss and break, yet they cannot prevail [against the sand ordained to hold them back]; Though the waves and the billows roar, yet they cannot cross over [the barrier]. [Is not such a God to be feared?]
Commentaries on Job 38:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10And brake up for it my decreed place - This refers to the decree, Genesis 1:9; : "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place." And set bars and doors - And let the dry land appear. This formed the bars and doors of the sea; the land being everywhere a barrier against the encroachments and inundations of the sea; and great rivers, bays, creeks, etc., the doors by which it passes into the interior of continents, etc.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10And brake up for it my decreed place - Margin, “established my decree upon it.” So Herder, “I fixed my decrees upon it.” Luther renders it, “Da ich ihm den Lauf brach mit meinem Damm” - “then I broke its course with my barrier.” Umbreit renders it, “I measured out to it my limits;” that is, the limits or bounds which I judged to be proper. So the Vulgate, “Circumdedi illud terminis meis” - “I surrounded it with my limits,” or with such limits as I chose…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-11Verses 4-11 For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, even concerning the earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God's work, so we need not fear concerning it. The works of his providence, as well as the work of creation, never can be broken; and the work of redemption is no less firm, of which Christ himself is both the Foundation and the Corner-stone. The church stands as firm as the earth.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-11set in place its bars and doors: God describes the sea as a dangerous creature that is kept under control.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. brake up for--that is, appointed it. Shores are generally broken and abrupt cliffs. The Greek for "shore" means "a broken place." I broke off or measured off for it my limit, that is, the limit which I thought fit (Job 26:10).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 38
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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