KJV King James Version
And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 38:10
And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
WEB World English Bible
marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
ASV American Standard Version
And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,
Surrounding context — Job 38
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?
9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10 And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,
11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
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Cross-references
Psalm 104:9Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.Jeremiah 5:22Fear 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?Job 26:10He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.Psalm 33:7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.Genesis 9:15And 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 1:9-10And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.
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