Job 38:10

Bishops' Bible (1568)

When I gaue it my commaundement, making doores and barres for it,

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  • Ps 104:9 : 9 Thou hast set them their boundes which they shall not passe: neither shall they returne agayne to couer the earth.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Feare ye not me, saith the Lorde? will ye not tremble at my presence? which bynde the sea with the sande by a continuall decree, so that it can not passe his boundes: for though it rage, yet can it do nothing, and though the waues therof do swell, yet may they not go ouer.
  • Job 26:10 : 10 He hath compassed the waters with certayne boundes, vntill the day and night come to an ende.
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as it were vpon an heape: and layeth vp the deepe as treasures.
  • Gen 1:9-9 : 9 And God saide: let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together into one place, and let the drye lande appeare: and it was so. 10 And God called the drie lande ye earth, and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas: and God sawe that it was good.
  • Gen 9:15 : 15 And I wyll thinke vpon my couenaunt whiche is betweene me and you, and euery liuing creature in all fleshe: and it shall no more come to passe, that waters make a fludde to destroy all fleshe.

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  • Job 38:8-9
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    8 Who shut the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as out of the wombe?

    9 When I made the cloudes to be a covering for it, and swadled it with the darke:

  • Job 38:11-13
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    11 Saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hie waues.

    12 Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place,

    13 That it might take holde of the corners of the earth, and that the vngodly might be shaken out of it.

  • 8 He hath hedged vp my way that I can not passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my pathes.

  • Prov 8:27-29
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    27 For when he made the heauens, I was present, when he compassed the deapthes about:

    28 When he hanged the cloudes aboue, when he fastened the springes of the deepe:

    29 When he shut the sea within certaine boundes, that the waters should not go ouer their markes that he commaunded: when he layde the foundations of the earth,

  • 10 He hath compassed the waters with certayne boundes, vntill the day and night come to an ende.

  • Lam 3:6-9
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    6 He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer.

    7 He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me.

    8 Though I crye and call pitiously, yet heareth he not my prayer.

    9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked.

  • Job 38:23-25
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    23 Which I haue prepared against the time of trouble, against the time of battaile and warre?

    24 By what way is the light parted? and into what land breaketh the east winde?

    25 Who deuideth the waters into diuers chanels? or who maketh a way for the lightening and thunder,

  • Job 38:4-6
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    4 Where wast thou when I layed the foundations of the earth? Tell playnely, if thou hast vnderstanding.

    5 Who hath measured it, knowest thou? or who hath spread the lyne vpon it?

    6 Whereupon are the foundations set? or who layed the corner stone thereof?

  • 26 When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightninges of the thunder:

  • 14 Beholde if he breake downe a thing, who can set it vp againe? yf he shut a thing, who wyll open it?

  • 9 Thou hast set them their boundes which they shall not passe: neither shall they returne agayne to couer the earth.

  • Job 38:15-17
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    15 The vngodly shall be disapointed of their light, and the arme of the proude shalbe broken.

    16 Camest thou euer into the grounde of the sea, or walkedst in the lowe corners of the deepe?

    17 Haue the gates of death ben opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the doores of the shadowe of death?

  • 16 For he breaketh the gates of brasse: & smyteth the barres of iron in sunder.

  • 30 That the waters are hidde as with a stone, and lye congealed aboue the deepe.

  • Job 38:19-20
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    19 Then shewe me the way where light dwelleth, & where is the place of darkenesse?

    20 That thou shouldest receaue it in the boundes thereof, and know the pathes to their houses.

  • 10 Though he turne all thinges vpsyde downe, close them in, gather them together, who will turne hym from his purpose?

  • 11 He hath marred my wayes, and broken me in peeces, he hath layde me waste altogether.

  • 38 To cause the earth to grow into hardnesse, & the clots to cleaue fast together?

  • 24 I haue digged and druncke straunge waters: & with the steppe of my goyng wil I drye al the water pooles that are besieged.

  • 18 Hast thou helped him to spreade out the heauens which are strong and bright as a loking glasse?

  • 11 He hath put my foote in the stockes, and looketh narowlye vnto all my pathes.

  • 8 He hym selfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and goeth vpon the waues of the sea.

  • 12 Am I a sea or a whale fish, that thou kepest me so in prison?

  • 6 I went downe to the bottome of the mountaines, the earth with her barres was about me for euer: yet hast thou brought vp my lyfe from corruption, O Lorde my God.

  • 8 Thy handes haue made me, & fashioned me altogether rounde about, wilt thou then destroy me?

  • 2 I wyll go before thee, and make the crooked straigth: I shall breake the brasen doores, and burst the iron barres.

  • 34 Moreouer, canst thou lift vp thy voyce to the cloudes, that they may powre downe a great rayne vpon thee?

  • 22 Feare ye not me, saith the Lorde? will ye not tremble at my presence? which bynde the sea with the sande by a continuall decree, so that it can not passe his boundes: for though it rage, yet can it do nothing, and though the waues therof do swell, yet may they not go ouer.

  • 10 I thought I shoulde haue gone to the gates of hell when myne age was shortened, and haue wanted the residue of my yeres.

  • 16 The chanels of the sea appeared: and the foundatios of the world were seene, by the reason of ye rebuking of the Lord, and through the blasting of the breath of his nosthryls.

  • 8 He byndeth the water in his cloudes, & the cloude is not broken vnder them.

  • 8 Wylt thou disanul my iudgement? or wylt thou condempne me, that thou mayst be righteous?

  • 12 I was in wealth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, he hath all to shaken me, and set me as a marke for him selfe.

  • 11 He bindeth the fluddes that they do not ouerflow: and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light.

  • 15 Thou broughtest out fountaynes and waters out of the harde rockes: thou dyddest drye vp mightie waters.