Job 38:8-11

The Lord Answers Job

⁸ "Or who _y shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb,
⁹ when I made clouds its garment
and _z thick darkness its swaddling band,
¹⁰ and prescribed _a limits for it
and set bars and doors,
¹¹ and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
and here shall your _b proud waves be stayed'?

1. Cross References
   Genesis 1:9
   And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.
   Psalms 33:7
   He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.
   Psalms 104:8 - 9
   The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.
   Jeremiah 5:22
   Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
   
2. Cross References
   Job 22:13
   But you say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
   
3. Cross References
   Job 38:33
   Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
   
4. Cross References
   Psalms 65:7
   Who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples.
   Psalms 89:9
   You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.
   Psalms 93:4
   Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the Lord on high is mighty!