Job 38:11

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

The One who established the mountains by his strength is clothed with omnipotence.

The rivers have flooded, LORD; the rivers have spoken aloud, the rivers have lifted up their crushing waves.

when he set a boundary for the sea so the waters would not exceed his limits, when he marked out the foundations of the earth.

Then he got up, rebuked the wind, and told the sea, "Calm down! Be still!" Then the wind stopped blowing, and there was a great calm.

Job neither sinned nor charged God with wrongdoing in all of this.

Then the LORD told Satan, "Very well then, he is under your control. Just preserve his life."

Even human anger praises you; you will wear the survivors of your wrath as an ornament.

You rule over the majestic sea; when its waves surge, you calm them.

Measure by measure, in their exile you contended with them; with his fierce blast he removed them, as on a day when the east wind blows.

Now a large herd of pigs was grazing there on the hillside. So the demons begged Jesus to let them go into those pigs, and he consented to that.

He captured the dragon, that ancient serpent, also known as the Devil and Satan, and tied him up for a thousand years.

Then God said, "Let the water beneath the sky come together into one area, and let dry ground appear!" And that is what happened:

You rule over the majestic sea; when its waves surge, you calm them.