Job 38:10
What does Job 38:10 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 38:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,
KJV
King James Version · 1611And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,
Context
Cross references
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.
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