King James Version
Job 38:10 in the King James Version says “And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, brake: or, established my decree upon it” — study this verse from Job chapter 38 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, brake: or, established my decree upon it”
Job 38:10 · KJV
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, brake: or, established my decree upon it
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? thy: Heb. the pride of thy waves
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
KJV Study — Public Domain
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“for it my decreed”
H2706an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
“place and set”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
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