“Or who (A)enclosed the sea with doors
When it went out from the womb, bursting forth;
When I made a cloud its garment,
And thick darkness its swaddling bands,
10 And I [a](B)placed boundaries on it
And set a bolt and doors,
11 And I said, ‘As far as this point you shall come, but no farther;
And here your proud waves shall stop’?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:10 Lit broke My decree on it

“Who shut up the sea behind doors(A)
    when it burst forth from the womb,(B)
when I made the clouds its garment
    and wrapped it in thick darkness,(C)
10 when I fixed limits for it(D)
    and set its doors and bars in place,(E)
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;(F)
    here is where your proud waves halt’?(G)

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You set a (A)boundary so that they will not pass over,
So that they will not return to cover the earth.

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You set a boundary(A) they cannot cross;
    never again will they cover the earth.

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29 When (A)He set a boundary for the sea
So that the water would not violate His [a]command,
When He marked out (B)the foundations of the earth;

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 8:29 Lit mouth

29 when he gave the sea its boundary(A)
    so the waters would not overstep his command,(B)
and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.(C)

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