Parallel Verses
Amplified
And said, ‘This far you shall come, but no farther;
And here your proud waves shall stop’?
New American Standard Bible
And here shall your proud waves stop’?
King James Version
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Holman Bible
your proud waves stop here”?
International Standard Version
and said, "You may come only this far and no more. Your majestic waves will stop here.'?
A Conservative Version
and said, This far thou shall come, but no further, and here thy proud waves shall be stayed?
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?
Darby Translation
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Julia Smith Translation
And saying, Even to this shalt thou come, and thou shalt not add: and here in the pride of thy waves, stand thou.
King James 2000
And said, Thus far shall you come, but no farther: and here shall your proud waves be stopped?
Lexham Expanded 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}'?
Modern King James verseion
and I said, You shall come to here, but no further; and here your proud waves shall stop.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
saying, 'Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shalt thou lay down thy proud and high waves.'
NET Bible
when I said, 'To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined'?
New Heart English Bible
and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
The Emphasized Bible
And said - Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further, - and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves?
Webster
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
World English Bible
and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
Youngs Literal Translation
And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'
Themes
Power » Divine power over nature exhibited by Christ, general examples of » The sea controlled
Interlinear
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References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
10
And marked for it My [appointed] boundary
And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines],
And said, ‘This far you shall come, but no farther;
And here your proud waves shall stop’?
“Since your days began, have you ever commanded the morning,
And caused the dawn to know its place,
Cross References
Psalm 89:9
You rule the swelling of the sea;
When its waves rise, You still them.
Job 1:22
Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God.
Job 2:6
So the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, only spare his life.”
Psalm 65:6-7
Who creates the mountains by His strength,
Being clothed with power,
Psalm 76:10
For the wrath of man shall praise You;
With a remnant of wrath You will clothe and arm Yourself.
Psalm 93:3-4
The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their pounding waves.
Proverbs 8:29
When He set for the sea its boundary
So that the waters would not transgress [the boundaries set by] His command,
When He marked out the foundations of the earth—
Isaiah 27:8
You contended with them by exile, by driving them away [from Canaan];
He has expelled them with His fierce wind on the day of the east wind.
Mark 4:39-41
And He got up and [sternly] rebuked the wind and said to the sea,
Luke 8:32-33
Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the mountain. The demons begged Jesus to allow them to enter the pigs, and He gave them permission.
Revelation 20:2-3
And he overpowered and laid hold of the dragon, that old serpent [of primeval times], who is the devil and Satan, and bound him [securely] for a thousand years (a millennium);
Revelation 20:7-8
And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison (the abyss),