Holy Scripture
Job 38:10
A church father on this verse
“He keeps [the sea] firmly within a sort of barrier, and in some perfect prescriptions of docility, as if he had given it precise commands. I have spoken, he says, and it did not reply, because that happens not only when no constraint forces it but also if the violence of an unchained power whips it quite hard. God has…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
10And I set bounds to it, Surrounding it with bars and gates.
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8And I shut up the sea with gates, When it rushed out, coming forth out of its mother’s womb.
9And I made a cloud its clothing, And swathed it in mist.
— Job 38:10 —
11And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, But thy waves shall be confined within thee.
12Or did I order the morning light in thy time; And did the morning star then first see his appointed place;