Job 38:10

Job chapter 38 · verse 10 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

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World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.9When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

v.10This passage

v.11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
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.
Jeremiah 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who 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 104:9
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
Job 26:10
He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.
Psalms 33:7
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.