Job 38:10 “when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,”

Job 38:10

when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,

Darby 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,

Bible in Basic English

Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

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Cross references

“brake up for it my decreed place”

Psalm 104:9 Jeremiah 5:22 Job 26:10 Genesis 9:15 Genesis 1:9 Genesis 1:10

Psalm 104:9 · BSB

You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.

Jeremiah 5:22 · BSB

Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but ca…

Job 26:10 · BSB

He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

Genesis 9:15 · BSB

I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

Genesis 1:9 · BSB

And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:10 · BSB

God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

Also

Psalm 33:7

Psalm 33:7 · BSB

He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

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