Parallel Verses
Amplified
And marked for it My [appointed] boundary
And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines],
New American Standard Bible
And set a bolt and doors,
King James Version
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
Holman Bible
and put its bars and doors in place,
International Standard Version
when I proscribed a boundary for it, set in place bars and doors for it;
A Conservative Version
and marked out for it my bound, and set bars and doors,
American Standard Version
And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,
Bible in Basic English
Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;
Darby Translation
When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,
Julia Smith Translation
And I shall break upon it my law, and I shall set bars and doors;
King James 2000
And prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,
Lexham Expanded Bible
and I prescribed my rule for it, and I set bars and doors,
Modern King James verseion
and set My limit on it, and set bars and doors,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When I gave it my commandment, making doors and bars for it;
NET Bible
when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,
New Heart English Bible
marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
The Emphasized Bible
And brake off for it my boundary, and fixed a bar and double doors;
Webster
And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
World English Bible
marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
Youngs Literal Translation
And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:10
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Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
9
When I made the clouds its garment
And thick darkness its swaddling band,
And marked for it My [appointed] boundary
And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines],
And said, ‘This far you shall come, but no farther;
And here your proud waves shall stop’?
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Cross References
Psalm 104:9
You set a boundary [for the waters] that they may not cross over,
So that they will not return to cover the earth.
Job 26:10
“He has inscribed a circular limit (the horizon) on the face of the waters
At the boundary between light and darkness.
Jeremiah 5:22
‘Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lord.
‘Do you not tremble [in awe] in My presence?
For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
An eternal decree and a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass.
Though the waves [of the sea] toss and break, yet they cannot prevail [against the sand ordained to hold them back];
Though the waves and the billows roar, yet they cannot cross over [the barrier].
[Is not such a God to be feared?]
Genesis 1:9-10
Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place [of standing, pooling together], and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
Genesis 9:15
and I will [compassionately] remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again will the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Psalm 33:7
He gathers the waters of the sea together as in a wineskin;
He puts the deeps in storehouses.