Job 38:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?”
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“and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?”
King James Version · Public Domain“And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And say, `Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 38:11 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 13:28and he went and found the body lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body or mauled the donkey.
- Job 1:22In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.
- Job 2:6“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
- Job 26:10He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
- Psalms 65:6You formed the mountains by Your power, having girded Yourself with might.
- Psalms 76:10Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
- Psalms 89:9You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.
- Psalms 93:3The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
- Psalms 104:9You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
- Proverbs 8:29when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
- Isaiah 27:8By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
- Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
- Mark 4:39Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm.
- Luke 8:32There on the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the demons begged Jesus to let them enter the pigs, and He gave them permission.
- Revelation 20:2He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
- Revelation 20:7When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,
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