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Job 38:11 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? "
Job 38:11
Verse in Context
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9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
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Job 38:1
"Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,"
Job 38:2
"Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?"
Job 38:3
"Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me."
Job 38:4
"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding."
Job 38:5
"Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?"
Job 38:6
"Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;"
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