Job 38:10
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I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:

Genesis 1:9
God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.

Job 38:9
When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?

Job 38:11
And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

Psalm 33:7
Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying up the depths in storehouses.

Psalm 104:9
Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; neither shall they return to cover the earth.

Proverbs 8:29
I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;

Jeremiah 5:22
Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.

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I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:

brake up for it my decreed place.

Job 26:10 He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come to an end.

Genesis 1:9,10 God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done. . . .

Genesis 9:15 And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.

Psalm 104:9 Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; neither shall they return to cover the earth.

Jeremiah 5:22 Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.

Context
God Challenges Job
9When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands? 10I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:11And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.…
Lexicon
when I fixed
וָאֶשְׁבֹּ֣ר (wā·’eš·bōr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7665: To break, break in pieces

its boundaries
חֻקִּ֑י (ḥuq·qî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 2706: Something prescribed or owed, a statute

and set in place
וָֽ֝אָשִׂ֗ים (wā·’ā·śîm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

its bars
בְּרִ֣יחַ (bə·rî·aḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1280: A bolt

and doors,
וּדְלָתָֽיִם׃ (ū·ḏə·lā·ṯā·yim)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - fd
Strong's Hebrew 1817: Something swinging, the valve of a, door


Additional Translations
when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,

And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.

When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,

And prescribed for it my decree, and set bars and doors,

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

marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,
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