Job 38:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

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 26:10

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

Job 38:11

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

Job 38:9

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

Job 41:14

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

Psalm 104:9

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

Psalm 33:7

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

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,

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.