KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 38:8–11
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Job 38:8
8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
8*Or who shut vp the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as if it had issued out of the wombe?
- Psal. 104.9.
Job 38:9
9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thicke darknesse a swadling band for it,
Job 38:10
10And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
10And ‖brake vp for it my decreed place, and set barres and doores,
- Or, established my decree vpon it.
Job 38:11
11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and heere shall †thy proud waues be stayed.
- Heb. the pride of thy waues.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 38:8
To close, fasten, or exclude; to become closed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Outward, onward, or away from a place.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
That which comes forth: an outflow, offspring, result, or end, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Job 38:9
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A visible mass of vapour in the sky; figuratively, a covering or multitude.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
An article of clothing; collectively, clothing or dress.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Dense, deep, close, crowded, or not thin; also, to a great depth or in close succession.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Absence of light; also obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Job 38:10
Determined judicially; resolved; appointed; established in purpose.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A location, position, room, occasion, office, or passage, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Job 38:11
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Farther in distance; more, additional, advanced, or to a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In this place, at this point, or in the present circumstance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Having an unduly high opinion of oneself; haughty or self-exalting.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Moving ridges or swells of water; figuratively, overwhelming troubles or forces.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Remained, stopped, restrained, supported, fixed, or settled.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 8
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Open the full verse study9¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
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Open the full verse study22Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
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Open the full verse study29When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
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Open the full verse study8They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
9Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
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Open the full verse study7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
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Open the full verse study10And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
From verse 9
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Open the full verse study2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
From verse 10
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Open the full verse study22Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
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Open the full verse study9Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
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Open the full verse study10He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
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Open the full verse study7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
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Open the full verse study9¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
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Open the full verse study15And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
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Open the full verse study9Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
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Open the full verse study29When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
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Open the full verse study39And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
40And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
41And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
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Open the full verse study6Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:
7Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
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Open the full verse study32And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
33Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
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Open the full verse study8In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
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Open the full verse study6And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
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Open the full verse study3The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
4The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
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Open the full verse study22In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
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Open the full verse study10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
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Open the full verse study2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
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Open the full verse study7And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
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