Job 38:11

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Summary

Job 38:11

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

Hitherto

But

Revelation 20:2

General references

Genesis 1:9

Psalm 89:9

Bible References

Hitherto

Who establishes the mountains by His strength,
Being girded with might;

The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice,
The floods lift up their pounding waves.

When He set for the sea its boundary
So that the water would not transgress His command,
When He marked out the foundations of the earth;

And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Hush, be still.” And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.

But

Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God.

So the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your power, only spare his life.”

For the

wrath of man shall praise You;

With a remnant of wrath You will gird Yourself.

You rule the swelling of the sea;
When its waves rise, You still them.

You contended with them by banishing them, by driving them away.
With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.

Now there was a herd of many swine feeding there on the mountain; and the demons implored Him to permit them to enter the swine. And He gave them permission.

And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;

General references

Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.

You rule the swelling of the sea;
When its waves rise, You still them.