Job 38:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:9 : 9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 “You should fear me!” says the LORD.“You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”
  • Job 26:10 : 10 He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He piles up the water of the sea; he puts the oceans in storehouses.
  • Gen 1:9-9 : 9 God said,“Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so. 10 God called the dry ground“land” and the gathered waters he called“seas.” God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 9:15 : 15 then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy all living things.

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    23which I reserve for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

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    15Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

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