Job 38:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Ps 89:9 : 9 You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.
  • Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry. 4 The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.
  • Prov 8:29 : 29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:
  • Isa 27:8 : 8 Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.
  • Mark 4:39-41 : 39 And he came out of his sleep, and gave strong orders to the wind, and said to the sea, Peace, be at rest. And the wind went down, and there was a great calm. 40 And he said to them, Why are you full of fear? have you still no faith? 41 And their fear was great, and they said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea do his orders?
  • Luke 8:32-33 : 32 Now there was a great herd of pigs in that place, getting food on the mountain: and the evil spirits made a request to him that he would let them go into the pigs, and he let them. 33 And the evil spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs: and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the water and came to destruction.
  • Rev 20:2-3 : 2 And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years, 3 And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time.
  • Rev 20:7-8 : 7 And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be let loose out of his prison, 8 And will go out to put in error the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to get them together to the war, the number of whom is like the sands of the sea.
  • Job 1:22 : 22 In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.
  • Job 2:6 : 6 And the Lord said to the Satan, See, he is in your hands, only do not take his life.
  • Ps 65:6-7 : 6 The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power: 7 Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves.
  • Ps 76:10 : 10 The ... will give you praise; the rest of ...

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 38:12-13
    2 verses
    81%

    12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

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

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

  • Prov 8:28-29
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    28 When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

    29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

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

  • 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.

  • 9 You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.

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

  • Job 26:10-12
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    75%

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

    11 The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

    12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

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

  • 8 By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.

  • Job 38:33-34
    2 verses
    73%

    33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

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

  • 8 By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

  • 7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

  • 5 What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?

  • 25 For at his word comes up the storm-wind, lifting high the waves.

  • 7 Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves.

  • 19 Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

  • 11 And they said to him, What are we to do to you so that the sea may become calm for us? For the sea was getting rougher and rougher.

  • Ps 93:3-4
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    3 The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.

    4 The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.

  • 9 Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

  • 3 In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.

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

  • 15 You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

  • 15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • 16 Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

  • 11 By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.

  • 11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • Job 38:24-25
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    70%

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

    25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

  • 10 Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?

  • 10 You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.

  • 7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

  • 15 For I am the Lord your God, who makes the sea calm when its waves are thundering: the Lord of armies is his name.

  • 16 This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;

  • 7 He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

  • 18 If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

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

  • 15 Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

  • 15 The feet of your horses were on the sea, on the mass of great waters.

  • 10 The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.

  • 22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

  • 29 He makes the storm into a calm, so that the waves are at peace.

  • 5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

  • 3 The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.