Job 38:10
Good News Translation
I marked a boundary for the sea and kept it behind bolted gates.

New Revised Standard Version
and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,

Contemporary English Version
Then I built a wall around it, locked the gates,

New American Bible
When I set limits for it and fastened the bar of its door,

Douay-Rheims Bible
I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:

brake up for it my decreed place.

Job 26:10 He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come to an end.

Genesis 1:9,10 God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done. . . .

Genesis 9:15 And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.

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

Jeremiah 5:22 Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.

Context
God Challenges Job
9When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands? 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.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:9
God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.

Job 38:9
When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?

Job 38:11
And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

Psalm 33:7
Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying up the depths in storehouses.

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

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

Jeremiah 5:22
Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.

Job 38:9
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