Job 38:11
New International Version
when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’?

New Living Translation
I said, ‘This far and no farther will you come. Here your proud waves must stop!’

English Standard Version
and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?

Berean Standard Bible
and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

King James Bible
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

New King James Version
When I said, ‘This far you may come, but no farther, And here your proud waves must stop!’

New American Standard Bible
And I said, ‘As far as this point you shall come, but no farther; And here your proud waves shall stop’?

NASB 1995
And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther; And here shall your proud waves stop ‘?

NASB 1977
And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther; And here shall your proud waves stop’?

Legacy Standard Bible
And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther; And here shall your proud waves stop’?

Amplified Bible
And said, ‘This far you shall come, but no farther; And here your proud waves shall stop’?

Christian Standard Bible
when I declared, “You may come this far, but no farther; your proud waves stop here”?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther; your proud waves stop here"?

American Standard Version
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I said: ‘unto here you shall come and not go beyond, and here you will stay in the magnificence of your waves’

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee.

Contemporary English Version
and said, "Your powerful waves stop here! They can go no farther."

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I said : Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

English Revised Version
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
when I said, 'You may come this far but no farther. Here your proud waves will stop'?

Good News Translation
I told it, "So far and no farther! Here your powerful waves must stop."

International Standard Version
and said, 'You may come only this far and no more. Your majestic waves will stop here.'?

JPS Tanakh 1917
And said: 'Thus far shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed'?

Literal Standard Version
And say, To here you come, and no more, | And a command is placed | On the pride of your billows.

Majority Standard Bible
and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

New American Bible
And said: Thus far shall you come but no farther, and here shall your proud waves stop?

NET Bible
when I said, 'To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined'?

New Revised Standard Version
and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?

New Heart English Bible
and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'

Webster's Bible Translation
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.

World English Bible
and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?

Young's Literal Translation
And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
God Challenges Job
10when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors, 11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’? 12In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,…

Cross References
Job 38:10
when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

Job 38:12
In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Psalm 104:9
You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.

Psalm 124:5
then the raging waters would have swept us away.


Treasury of Scripture

And said, Till now shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed?

Psalm 65:6,7
Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power: …

Psalm 93:3,4
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves…

Proverbs 8:29
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

but

Job 1:22
In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

Job 2:6
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

Psalm 76:10
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

thy proud waves.

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Verse 11. - And said, Hitherto shalt thou corns, but no further. The law is not quite absolute. Wherever the sea washes a coast-line, there is a continual erosive action, whereby the land is, little by little, eaten away, and the line of the coast thrust back. But the action is so slow that millennia pass without any considerable effect being produced, and encroachments in some places are generally counterbalanced by retrenchment in others, so that the general contour of laud and water, with the proportion of the one to the other, remain probably very much the same at the present day as when the earth first became the habitation of man. And here shall thy proud waves be stayed. The waves of the sea "rage horribly," and every now and then topple down a rock or undermine a cliff, and seem proud of their achievements; but how little do they effect, even in thousands of years! The little islet of Psyttaleia still blocks the eastern end of the straits of Salamis. The Pharos island lies off the westernmost mouth of the Nile. Even the low, fiat Aradus, on the Syrian coast, has not been swept away. Everywhere the waves are practically "stayed," and all the menaces of the sea against the land come to nought.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
and I declared:
וָאֹמַ֗ר (wā·’ō·mar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘You may come
תָ֭בוֹא (ṯā·ḇō·w)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

this far,
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

but no
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

farther;
תֹסִ֑יף (ṯō·sîp̄)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3254: To add, augment

here
וּפֹ֥א־ (ū·p̄ō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 6311: This place, here

your proud
בִּגְא֥וֹן (biḡ·’ō·wn)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1347: Arrogance, majesty, ornament

waves
גַּלֶּֽיךָ׃ (gal·le·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1530: Something rolled, a heap of stone, dung, a spring of water

must stop’?
יָ֝שִׁ֗ית (yā·šîṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7896: To put, set


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