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Job 38:10
10I put a border around the sea. I locked it in its place.
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
8When the sea poured out of the ground, I decided where its borders should be. I kept the water in its right place. 9I caused the clouds to come over the sea. I covered it with complete darkness. I put a border around the sea. I locked it in its place. 11I said to the sea, “This is as far as you can come. You may come no further. Your powerful waves must stop there!” 12But you, Job, did you ever command the morning to begin? No! You have never in your whole life told the sun when it should rise.
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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 marks the border between the sea and the sky. It is the place where the night finishes and the day begins.
- Genesis 1:9God said, ‘The water that is under the sky will come together in one place. Then dry ground will appear.’ And what God said happened.
- Genesis 9:15Then I will remember the covenant that I have made with you and with all the different kinds of living things. Never again will the water become so deep that it destroys everything that lives.
- Psalms 104:9You made a border for the water so that it could not cross. Never again will the water cover the earth.
- Jeremiah 5:22The Lord says, ‘You should respect me and obey me. You should shake with fear when you come to me. I made the sand as an edge for the sea. It is like a wall that the sea cannot cross. The sea's waves may attack the shore, but it cannot go further than that edge.
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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