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The Book of Job, Chapter 38, Verse 11

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And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,
King James Version
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
American Standard Version
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
New English Translation
when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?
World English Bible
and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
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Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place;
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That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
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It is turned as clay [to] the seal; and they stand as a garment.
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And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
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Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
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Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
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Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
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Where [is] the way [where] light dwelleth? and [as for] darkness, where [is] the place thereof,
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That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths [to] the house thereof?
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Knowest thou [it], because thou wast then born? or [because] the number of thy days [is] great?