10 He laid out the horizon on the surface of the waters(A)
at the boundary between light and darkness.

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10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters(A)
    for a boundary between light and darkness.(B)

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10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

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10 when I determined its boundaries[a]
and put its bars and doors in place,
11 when I declared, “You may come this far, but no farther;
your proud waves stop here”?

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Footnotes

  1. 38:10 Lit I broke my statute on it

10 when I fixed limits for it(A)
    and set its doors and bars in place,(B)
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;(C)
    here is where your proud waves halt’?(D)

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

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

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22 Do you not fear me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Do you not tremble before me,
the one who set the sand as the boundary of the sea,
an enduring barrier that it cannot cross?(A)
The waves surge, but they cannot prevail.
They roar but cannot pass over it.

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22 Should you not fear(A) me?” declares the Lord.
    “Should you not tremble(B) in my presence?
I made the sand a boundary for the sea,(C)
    an everlasting barrier it cannot cross.
The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail;
    they may roar,(D) but they cannot cross it.

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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?

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