Job 38:10 when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,

◄ Job 38:10 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,

English Standard Version
and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors,

New American Standard Bible
And I placed boundaries on it And set a bolt and doors,

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
when I determined its boundaries and put its bars and doors in place,

International Standard Version
when I proscribed a boundary for it, set in place bars and doors for it;

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors :

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

Young's Literal Translation
And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

Cross References

Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

Job 38:9
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling cloth for it,

Job 38:11
And said, Till now shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed?

Psalm 33:7
He gathers the waters of the sea together as an heap: he lays up the depth in storehouses.

Psalm 104:9
You have set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

Proverbs 8:29
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Jeremiah 5:22
Fear you not me? said the LORD: will you 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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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

38:4-11 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10. 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).