10He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? …
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-14)The truth received a great deal of light from the dispute between Job and his friends concerning those points about which they differed; but now they are upon a subject in which they were all agreed, the infinite glory and power of God. How does truth triumph, and how brightly does it shine, when there appears no other strife between the contenders than which shall speak most highly and honourably…
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