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Job 38:8-11 KJV
Job · chapter 38 · verses 8–11
8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, 10And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, 11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?Job 38:8-11 · King James Version
Job 38:8-11 in context
6Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
13That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- darknessʻărâphelgloomH6205 →
- Hithertoʻadas far as, whether of space or time or degreeH5704 →
- Hithertopôhthis placeH6311 →
- garmentlᵉbûwsha garmentH3830 →
- decreedchôqan enactmentH2706 →
- furtheryâçaphto add or augmentH3254 →
- doorsdelethsomething swingingH1817 →
- forthgîyachto gush forth , generally to issueH1518 →
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For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance even concerning the earth and the sea. Though so near, though so bulky, yet he could give no account of their origination, much less of heaven above or hell beneath, which are at such a distance, or of the several parts of matter which are so minute, and then,…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-11