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Contemporary English Version

Job 38:11

and said, "Your powerful waves stop here! They can go no farther."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Continents;   God;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Thompson Chain Reference - Power;   Sea;   Waves;   Weakness-Power;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sea, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Creation;   Miracles;   Rahab;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Create, Creation;   God;   Mystery;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Providence;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chaos;   Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Knowledge;   Nature;   World;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther;your proud waves stop here”?
Hebrew Names Version
And said, 'Here you may come, but no further; Here shall your proud waves be stayed?'
King James Version
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
English Standard Version
and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed'?
New Century Version
when I said to the sea, ‘You may come this far, but no farther; this is where your proud waves must stop'?
New English Translation
when I said, ‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined'?
Amplified Bible
And said, 'This far you shall come, but no farther; And here your proud waves shall stop'?
New American Standard Bible
And I said, 'As far as this point you shall come, but no farther; And here your proud waves shall stop'?
World English Bible
And said, 'Here you may come, but no further; Here shall your proud waves be stayed?'
Geneva Bible (1587)
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.
Legacy Standard Bible
And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther;And here shall your proud waves stop'?
Berean Standard Bible
and I declared: 'You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop'?
Complete Jewish Bible
and said, ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop'?
Darby Translation
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Easy-to-Read Version
I said to the sea, ‘You can come this far, but no farther. This is where your proud waves will stop.'
George Lamsa Translation
And said, Thus far shall you come, but no farther; and here shall your proud waves be stayed?
Good News Translation
I told it, "So far and no farther! Here your powerful waves must stop."
Lexham English Bible
and I said, ‘You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further, and here it will set a boundary for your proud surging waves'?
Literal Translation
and I said, You shall come to here, but no further; and here your proud waves shall be set?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
sayenge: Hither to shalt thou come, but no further, and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hye wawes.
American Standard Version
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Bible in Basic English
And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And said: 'Thus far shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed'?
King James Version (1611)
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and heere shall thy proud waues be stayed.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hie waues.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee.
English Revised Version
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Y seide, `Til hidur thou schalt come, and thou schalt not go forth ferthere; and here thou schalt breke togidere thi bolnynge wawis.
Update Bible Version
And said, This far you shall come, but no further; And here shall your proud waves be stayed?
Webster's Bible Translation
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
New King James Version
When I said, "This far you may come, but no farther, And here your proud waves must stop!'
New Living Translation
I said, ‘This far and no farther will you come. Here your proud waves must stop!'
New Life Bible
And I said, ‘You will come this far, and no farther. Here will your proud waves stop.'
New Revised Standard
and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped'?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And said - Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further, - and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves?
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.
Revised Standard Version
and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed'?
Young's Literal Translation
And say, `Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And I said, 'Thus far you shall come, but no farther; And here shall your proud waves stop'?

Contextual Overview

4 How did I lay the foundation for the earth? Were you there? 5 Doubtless you know who decided its length and width. 6 What supports the foundation? Who placed the cornerstone, 7 while morning stars sang, and angels rejoiced? 8 When the ocean was born, I set its boundaries 9 and wrapped it in blankets of thickest fog. 10 Then I built a wall around it, locked the gates, 11 and said, "Your powerful waves stop here! They can go no farther."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hitherto: Thus far shall thy flux and reflux extend. The tides are marvellously limited and regulated, not only by the lunar and solar attraction, but by the quantum of time required to remove any part of the earth's surface, by its rotation round its axis, from under the immediate attractive influence of the sun and moon. Hence the attraction of the sun and moon, and the gravitation of the sea to its own centre, which prevent too great a flux on the one hand, and too great reflux on the other, are some of those bars and doors by which its proud waves are stayed, and prevented from coming farther. Psalms 65:6, Psalms 65:7, Psalms 93:3, Psalms 93:4, Proverbs 8:29, Mark 4:39-41

but: Job 1:22, Job 2:6, Psalms 76:10, Psalms 89:9, Isaiah 27:8, Luke 8:32, Luke 8:33, Revelation 20:2, Revelation 20:3, Revelation 20:7, Revelation 20:8

thy proud waves: Heb. the pride of thy waves

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 30:2 - slew not 2 Samuel 22:16 - rebuking 1 Kings 13:28 - the lion had Job 9:8 - treadeth Psalms 46:3 - the waters Psalms 95:5 - The sea is his Psalms 104:9 - hast set Psalms 124:5 - the proud Psalms 148:6 - He hath also Ecclesiastes 1:7 - the rivers run Isaiah 17:13 - rebuke Jeremiah 5:22 - placed Jeremiah 31:35 - when Nahum 1:4 - rebuketh Mark 4:41 - What

Cross-References

Genesis 38:11
Judah did not want the same thing to happen to his son Shelah, and he told Tamar, "Go home to your father and live there as a widow until my son Shelah is grown." So Tamar went to live with her father.
Genesis 38:13
Tamar found out that her father-in-law Judah was going to Timnah to shear his sheep.
Leviticus 22:13
But if she returns to your home, either widowed or divorced, and has no children, she may join in the meal. Only members of a priestly family can eat this food,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And said, hitherto shalt thou come, but no further,.... The waters of the sea shall spread themselves to such and such shores, and wash them, but go no further; its rolling tides shall go up so far in rivers that go out of it, and then return, keeping exactly to time and place; this is said by Jehovah, the Word of God, and through his almighty power is tended to;

and here shall thy proud waves be stayed; so high and no higher shall they lift up themselves; so far and no farther shall they roll on, than to the boundaries fixed for them; and though they may toss up themselves as proud men toss up their heads, for which, reason pride is ascribed to them, yet they shall not prevail, Jeremiah 5:22; all this may be accommodated to the afflictions of God's people, which are sometimes compared to the waves and billows of the sea, Psalms 42:7; and these issue out of the womb of God's purposes and decrees, and are not the effects of chance; they are many, and threaten to overwhelm, but God is with his people in them, and preserves them from being overflowed by them; he has set the bounds and measures of them, beyond which they cannot go; see Isaiah 27:8; and also to the world, and to the men of it, who are like a troubled sea, Daniel 7:2; and who rise, and swell, and dash against the people of God, being separated from them who were originally mixed with them; but the Lord restrains their wrath and fury, and suffers them not to do his people any harm; whom he has placed in the munition of rocks out of their reach, that those proud waters cannot go over them as they threaten to do; see

Psalms 76:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come - This is a most sublime expression, and its full force can be felt only by one who has stood on the shores of the ocean, and seen its mighty waves roll toward the beach as if in their pride they would sweep everything away, and how they are checked by the barrier which God has made. A voice seems to say to them that they may roll in their pride and grandeur so far, but no further. No increase of their force or numbers can sweep the barrier away, or make any impression on the limits which God has fixed.

And here shall they proud waves be stayed - Margin, as in Hebrew, “the pride of thy waves.” A beautiful image. The waves seem to advance in pride and self-confidence, as if nothing could stay them. They come as if exulting in the assurance that they will sweep everything away. In a moment they are arrested and broken, and they spread out humbly and harmlessly on the beach. God fixes the limit or boundary which they are not to pass, and they lie prostrate at his feet.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 38:11. Hitherto shalt thou come — Thus far shall thy flux and reflux extend. The tides are marvellously limited and regulated, not only by the lunar and solar attractions, but by the quantum of time also which is required to remove any part of the earth's surface from under the immediate attractive influence of the sun and moon. And this regulation takes place by means of the rotation of the earth round its own axis, which causes one thousand and forty-two miles of its equator to pass from under any given point in the heavens in one hour; and about five hundred and eighty miles in the latitude of London: so that the attracted fluid parts are every moment passing from under the direct attractive influence, and thus the tides cannot generally be raised to any extraordinary height. The attraction of the sun and moon, and the gravitation of its own parts to its own centre, which prevent too great a flux on the one hand, and too great a reflux on the other; or, in other words, too high a tide, and too deep an ebb, are also some of those bars and doors by which its proud waves are stayed, and prevented from coming farther; all being regulated by these laws of attraction by the sun and moon, the gravitation of its own parts from the sun and moon, and the diurnal motion round its own axis, by which the fluid parts, easily yielding to the above attraction, are continually moving from under the direct attractive influence. Here a world of wisdom and management was necessary, in order to proportion all these things to each other, so as to procure the great benefits which result from the flux and reflux of the sea, and prevent the evils that must take place, at least occasionally, were not those bars and doors provided. It is well known that the spring-tides happen at the change and full of the moon, at which time she is in conjunction with and opposition to the sun. As these retire from their conjunction, the tides neap till about three days after the first quadrature, when the tides begin again to be more and more elevated, and arrive at their maximum about the third day after the opposition. From this time the tides neap as before till the third day after the last quadrature; and afterwards their daily elevations are continually increased till about the third day after the conjunction, when they recommence their neaping; the principal phenomena of the tides always taking place at or near the some points of every lunar synodic revolution.


 
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