What does Job 38:9 mean?

Job 38:9 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Job 38:9 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

10And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

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