Job 38:10

World English Bible (2000)

marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:9 : 9 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'
  • Job 26:10 : 10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
  • Gen 1:9-9 : 9 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so. 10 God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 9:15 : 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 38:8-9
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    8"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

    9when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

  • Job 38:11-13
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    11and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'

    12"Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

    13that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • 8He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

  • Prov 8:27-29
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    27When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

    28when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,

    29when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;

  • 10He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

  • Lam 3:6-9
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    6He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

    7He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.

    8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

    9He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

  • Job 38:23-25
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    23which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

    24By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

    25Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;

  • Job 38:4-6
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    4"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

    5Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

    6Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

  • 26When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;

  • 14Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

  • 9You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.

  • Job 38:15-17
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    15From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

    16"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

    17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

  • 16For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.

  • 30The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

  • Job 38:19-20
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    19"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

    20that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

  • 10If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

  • 11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • 38when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

  • 24I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'

  • 18Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

  • 11He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.'

  • 8He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

  • 12Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

  • 6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

  • 8"'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

  • 2"I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.

  • 34"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

  • 22Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'

  • 10I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."

  • 16Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

  • 8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

  • 8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • 12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

  • 11He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

  • 15You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.