Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
and said, This far thou shall come, but no further, and here thy proud waves shall be stayed?
New American Standard Bible
And here shall your proud waves stop’?
King James Version
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Holman Bible
your proud waves stop here”?
International Standard Version
and said, "You may come only this far and no more. Your majestic waves will stop here.'?
American Standard Version
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Amplified
And said, ‘This far you shall come, but no farther;
And here your proud waves shall stop’?
Bible in Basic English
And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
Darby Translation
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Julia Smith Translation
And saying, Even to this shalt thou come, and thou shalt not add: and here in the pride of thy waves, stand thou.
King James 2000
And said, Thus far shall you come, but no farther: and here shall your proud waves be stopped?
Lexham Expanded Bible
and I said, 'You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further, and here it will set [a boundary] {for your proud surging waves}'?
Modern King James verseion
and I said, You shall come to here, but no further; and here your proud waves shall stop.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
saying, 'Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shalt thou lay down thy proud and high waves.'
NET Bible
when I said, 'To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined'?
New Heart English Bible
and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
The Emphasized Bible
And said - Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further, - and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves?
Webster
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
World English Bible
and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
Youngs Literal Translation
And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'
Themes
Power » Divine power over nature exhibited by Christ, general examples of » The sea controlled
Interlinear
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References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
10 and marked out for it my bound, and set bars and doors, 11 and said, This far thou shall come, but no further, and here thy proud waves shall be stayed? 12 Have thou commanded the morning since thy days [began], [and] caused the dayspring to know its place
Cross References
Psalm 89:9
Thou rule the pride of the sea. When the waves of it arise, thou still them.
Job 1:22
In all this Job did not sin, nor foolishly accuse God.
Job 2:6
And LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand, only spare his life.
Psalm 65:6-7
who by his strength sets firm the mountains, being girded about with might,
Psalm 76:10
Surely the inward thought of man shall praise thee, even the residue of inward thought will observe a festival to thee.
Psalm 93:3-4
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their waves.
Proverbs 8:29
when he gave to the sea its bound that the waters should not transgress his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
Isaiah 27:8
In measure, in sending it forth, thou content with it. He has removed with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
Mark 4:39-41
And having awaken, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Be quiet! Silence! And the wind ceased, and it became a great calm.
Luke 8:32-33
Now a herd of considerable swine was there feeding on the mountain, and they implored him that he would allow them to enter into those. And he allowed them.
Revelation 20:2-3
And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, who leads the whole world astray, and bound him a thousand years.
Revelation 20:7-8
And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be loosed out of his prison.