Job 38:10 Explained in Context

Verse 4. ⁴ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Verse 5. ⁵ Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

Verse 6. ⁶ Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

Verse 7. ⁷ When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Verse 8. ⁸ Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

Verse 9. ⁹ When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

Verse 10. ¹⁰ And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

Verse 11. ¹¹ And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?