The LORD Challenges Job
Job 38:10
In 11 translations
- BSB
- when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
- KJV
- And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,brake…: or, established my decree upon it
- WEB
- marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
- ASV
- And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,
- LSV
- And I measure My statute over it, || And place bar and doors,
- YLT
- And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,
- DBY
- When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,
- DRC
- I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:
- GNV
- When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,
- JPS
- And prescribed for it My decree, and set bars and doors,
- LXXE
- And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וָאֶשְׁבֹּ֣ר עָלָ֣יו חֻקִּ֑י וָֽ֝אָשִׂ֗ים בְּרִ֣יחַ וּדְלָתָֽיִם׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἐθέμην δὲ αὐτῇ ὅρια, περιθεὶς κλεῖθρα καὶ πύλας.
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
BarContinentsDoorsBar (2)Condescension of GodReadings, SelectSea, TheBaruch, Book ofMeteorology and Celestial PhenomenaJob, Book of
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 104:9You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
- Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but…
- Job 26:10He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
- Psalms 33:7He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.
- Genesis 1:9–10And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so. God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that…
- Genesis 9:15I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
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