Job 38:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וָאֹמַ֗ר עַד־פֹּ֣ה תָ֭בוֹא וְלֹ֣א תֹסִ֑יף וּפֹ֥א־יָ֝שִׁ֗ית בִּגְא֥וֹן גַּלֶּֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

And-ʾōmar until-here tābôʾ and-not tōsîp and-here-yāšît with-gĕʾôn galleykā.

Grammar Details

*wə-*: conjunction - and
*ʾōmar*: qal imperfect, 1st singular with waw consecutive - I said
*ʿad*: preposition - until/as far as
*pōh*: adverb - here/thus far
*tābôʾ*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you shall come
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*tōsîp*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you shall add/go further
*û*: conjunction - and
*pōʾ*: adverb - here
*yāšît*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it shall place/set
*bə*: preposition - in/with
*gĕʾôn*: noun, masculine singular - pride/majesty
*galleykā*: noun, masculine plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your waves

Word Meanings

*ʾōmar*: I said/I declared
*tābôʾ*: you shall come/you may come
*tōsîp*: you shall add/you shall proceed further
*yāšît*: it shall place/it shall set/one shall set
*gĕʾôn*: pride/majesty/swelling
*galleykā*: your waves/your billows

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 89:9 : 9 Thou rulest the pride of the sea: When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves. 4 Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Jehovah on high is mighty.
Prov 8:29 : 29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
Isa 27:8 : 8 In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed [them] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
Mark 4:39-41 : 39 And he awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 40 And he said unto them, Why are ye fearful? have ye not yet faith? 41 And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
Luke 8:32-33 : 32 Now there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they entreated him that he would give them leave to enter into them. And he gave them leave. 33 And the demons came out from the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the lake, and were drowned.
Rev 20:2-3 : 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and cast him into the abyss, and shut [it], {G2808} and sealed [it] over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years should be finished: {G2532} after this he must be loosed for a little time.
Rev 20:7-8 : 7 And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8 and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Job 1:22 : 22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Job 2:6 : 6 And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.
Ps 65:6-7 : 6 Who by his strength setteth fast the mountains, Being girded about with might; 7 Who stilleth the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples.
Ps 76:10 : 10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee.

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