Job 38:10 · KJV
“And brake up for it my decreed {place}, and set bars and doors, {brake...: or, established my decree upon it}”
— Job 38:10
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? {thy...: Heb. the pride of thy waves}
Job 38 — Context
Or {who} shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, {as if} it had issued out of the womb?
9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10And brake up for it my decreed {place}, and set bars and doors, {brake...: or, established my decree upon it}
11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? {thy...: Heb. the pride of thy waves}
12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; {and} caused the dayspring to know his place;
Cross References
Psalms 104:9
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye 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?
Psalms 33:7
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Job 26:10
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. {until...: Heb. until the end of light with darkness}
Genesis 9:15
And I will remember my covenant, which {is} between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 1:9-10
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry {land} appear: and it was so.