Job 38:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ And brake up for it my decreed place, And set bars and doors,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ And marked for it My appointed boundary and set bars and doors, [Jer. 5:22.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,

Common English Bible

¹⁰ when I imposed my limit for it, put on a bar and doors

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ I encircled it with my limits, and I positioned its bars and doors.

Job 38:10 Cross References

Jeremiah 5:22

Do you not fear me? says the Lord; Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.

Psalm 104:9

You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.

Job 26:10

He has described a circle on the face of the waters, at the boundary between light and darkness.

Psalm 33:7

He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle; he put the deeps in storehouses.

Genesis 9:15

I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Job 38:9

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,

Job 38:11

and said, ‘Thus far shall you come and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?

Proverbs 8:29

when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

Job 41:14

Who can open the doors of its face? There is terror all around its teeth.