Job 38:8-11
shut up <05526> [who.]
coming out <03318> [out.]
thick darkness <06205> [thick.]
when ... prescribed ... limits <02706 07665> [brake up for it my decreed place. or, established my decree upon it.]
To <05704> [Hitherto.]
Thus far shall thy flux and reflux extend. The tides are marvellously limited and regulated, not only by the lunar and solar attraction, but by the quantum of time required to remove any part of the earth's surface, by its rotation round its axis, from under the immediate attractive influence of the sun and moon. Hence the attraction of the sun and moon, and the gravitation of the sea to its own centre, which prevent too great a flux on the one hand, and too great reflux on the other, are some of those bars and doors by which its proud waves are stayed, and prevented from coming farther.
farther <03254> [but.]
proud waves <01530 01347> [thy proud waves. Heb. the pride of thy waves.]
