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Job 38:10 Cross-References
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“And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, brake: or, established my decree upon it”
Job 38:10 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 38:10
"And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors." God established boundaries for the sea through divine decree (chuqqi, חֻקִּי, "my decree/statute"). The imagery of bars (beriach, בְּרִיחַ) and doors (delatayim, דְּלָתָיִם) personifies the sea as something powerful that must be restrained. This echoes Genesis 1:9-10 where God gathered waters into seas. The passage affirms God's absolute sovereignty over chaos and nature's most powerful forces. Unlike ancient myths where gods struggled to control chaotic waters, Yahweh effortlessly commands nature's boundaries.
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 38:10
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“Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.”
“who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea”
“He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.”
“and to the confines of light and darkness.”
“which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh”
“Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so.”