Job 38:11

In 11 translations

BSB

and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

KJV

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?thy…: Heb. the pride of thy waves

WEB

and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?

ASV

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

LSV

And say, To here you come, and no more, || And a command is placed || On the pride of your billows.

YLT

And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

DBY

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

DRC

And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

GNV

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.

JPS

And said: 'Thus far shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed'?

LXXE

And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee.

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WLC

וָאֹמַ֗ר עַד־פֹּ֣ה תָ֭בוֹא וְלֹ֣א תֹסִ֑יף וּפֹ֥א־יָ֝שִׁ֗ית בִּגְא֥וֹן גַּלֶּֽיךָ׃

LXX-Br

Εἶπα δὲ αὐτῇ, μέχρι τούτου ἐλεύσῃ, καὶ οὐχ ὑπερβήσῃ, ἀλλʼ ἐν σεαυτῇ συντριβήσεταί σου τὰ κύματα.

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• Psalms 89:9You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.
• Proverbs 8:29when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
• Psalms 65:6–7You formed the mountains by Your power, having girded Yourself with might. You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.
• Mark 4:39–41Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm. “Why are you so afraid?” He asked. “Do you still have no faith?” Overwhelmed…
• Luke 8:32–33There on the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the demons begged Jesus to let them enter the pigs, and He gave them permission. Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd…
• Job 2:6“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
• Psalms 93:3–4The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves. Above the roar of many waters— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.
• Isaiah 27:8By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
• Psalms 76:10Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
• Job 1:22In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.
• Revelation 20:7–8When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison, and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the…
• Revelation 20:2–3He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations…

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