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 · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

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

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,

Context

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?

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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