Job 38:11
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
הערת לימוד
Study Note
God's address to Job from the whirlwind includes the challenge about setting the sea's boundaries: 'hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?' — a question that humbles Job's attempts to call God to account by confronting him with the limits of his own creaturely knowledge. The chaoskampf tradition of divine ordering of primordial waters (Psalm 89:9; Jeremiah 5:22) stands behind this imagery — the sea represents the forces of dissolution and disorder that only divine speech can limit. The speech as a whole (38-39) does not answer Job's specific theological complaints about injustice but reframes the entire discussion by demonstrating the gap between creaturely and divine perspective on cosmic order. Job's response (40:3-5; 42:1-6) models the movement from accusation to awe that the divine speeches are designed to produce.
תרגומים נוספים
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
And say, `Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'
And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
הפניות צולבות
And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the …
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of …
And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and …
And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and …
Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a …
And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would …
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, …
And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,