Job 38:11
Good News Translation
I told it, "So far and no farther! Here your powerful waves must stop."

New Revised Standard Version
and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?

Contemporary English Version
and said, "Your powerful waves stop here! They can go no farther."

New American Bible
And said: Thus far shall you come but no farther, and here shall your proud waves stop?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

Psalm 65:6,7 Thou who preparest the mountains by thy strength, being girded with power: . . .

Psalm 93:3,4 The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves, . . .

Proverbs 8:29 I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;

Mark 4:39-41 And rising up, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea: Peace, be still. And the wind ceased: and there was made a great calm. . . .

but

Job 1:22 In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any foolish thing against God.

Job 2:6 And the Lord said to Satan: Behold, he is in thy hand, but yet save his life.

Psalm 76:10 For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

Psalm 89:9 Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.

Isaiah 27:8 In measure against measure, when it shall be cast off, thou shalt judge it. He hath meditated with his severe spirit in the day of heat.

Luke 8:32,33 And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them. . . .

Revelation 20:2,3,7,8 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. . . .

thy proud waves.

Context
God Challenges Job
10I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors: 11And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.12Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?…
Cross References
Job 38:10
I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:

Job 38:12
Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?

Psalm 104:9
Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; neither shall they return to cover the earth.

Psalm 124:5
Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.

Job 38:10
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