Job 38:10

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

…when I broke forth over it My decree, and set in place a bar and doors,

Latin

Circumdedi illud terminis meis, et posui vectem et ostia,

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Job 38:10–11

set in place its bars and doors: God describes the sea as a dangerous creature that is kept under control.

Job 38:1–40:5

God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints God’s Uniqueness

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Psalm 104:9
You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22
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 cannot cross it.
Psalm 33:7
He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.
Job 26:10
He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
Genesis 1:9–10
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 9:15
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.

Glossary

Book of Job Prayer of Manasseh Proverbs, Book of Sea Wisdom Literature

Topics

Blessing: Temporal, from God Continents: General Scriptures Concerning God: Creator God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: General Scriptures Concerning The Sea: God: Set Bounds To, by a Perpetual Decree

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