Job 38:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

Job 38:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 5:22
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?
Psalms 104:9
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Psalms 33:7
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Job 26:10
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
Genesis 9:15
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-11)

For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance even concerning the earth and the sea. Though so near, though so bulky, yet he could give no account of their origination, much less of heaven above or hell beneath, which are at such a distance, or of the several parts of matter which are so minute, and then, least of all, of the divine counsels. I. Concerning the founding of the earth. “I…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. brake up for--that is, appointed it. Shores are generally broken and abrupt cliffs. The Greek for “shore” means “a broken place.” I broke off or measured off for it my limit, that is, the limit which I thought fit (Job 26:10).