Job Chapter 38 verse 10 Holy Bible
And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,
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Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;
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When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,
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And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
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And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
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Marked out for it my bound, Set bars and doors,
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And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - And brake up for it my decreed place; rather, as in the margin, and established my decree upon it; or, as in the Revised Version, and prescribed for it my decree. The decree itself is given in ver. 11. And set bars and doors (see above, ver. 8, where the imagery of "doors" has been already introduced). As Professor Lee observes, "The term דְּלָתַיִם contains a metaphor taken from the large folding-doors of a city, which are usually set up for the purpose of stepping the progress of an invading enemy, and are hence supplied with bolts and bars" ('Book of Job,' p. 490). Representations of such folding-doors are common in the Assyrian sculptures; and in one instance the doors themselves, or, to speak more exactly, their outer bronze easing, has been recovered (see a paper in the 'Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology,' on the Bronze Gates discovered by Mr. Rassam at Balawat, vol. 7. pp. 85-115). These gates were twenty-two feet high and six feet broad each.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) And brake up for it my decreed place.--Rather, And prescribed for it my decree: that is to say, determined the boundaries of its abode. When we bear in mind the vast forces and unstable nature of the sea, it seems a marvel that it acknowledges any limits, and is held in restraint by them.
