Job 38:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:9 : 9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.
  • Job 26:10 : 10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.
  • Gen 1:9-9 : 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so. 10 And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 9:15 : 15 And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.

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    8Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

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    11And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

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    13So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

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    8My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

  • Prov 8:27-29
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    27When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

    28When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

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    10By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

  • Lam 3:6-9
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    6He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

    7He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

    8Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

    9He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

  • Job 38:23-25
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    23Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?

    24Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

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    4Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

    5By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

    6On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

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    26When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;

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    14Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

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    9You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

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    15And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

    16Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

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    16The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.

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    30The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

  • Job 38:19-20
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    19Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

    20So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

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    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

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    11He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.

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    34Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

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