Job 38:10

10. Brake up… decreed place Rather, And broke over it my decree. The tumultuous violence of the ocean is still in the poet’s mind its struggles were Titanic as it came into contact with the divine law. “The breaking of the land upon it represents, better than any other linguistic painting could do, its wild stubbornness. It is really the sea breaking itself against law; but there is great vividness and even sublimity in the converse of the figure.”- T. Lewis. Schlottmann sees in this sublime description an ambition on the part of the young sea infinitely to extend its mass and limits; (comp. Job 7:12, with note;) but these are broken off with violence by one more powerful, even God himself, and so forever confined within prescribed limits. Job may take comfort; God can also set bars and doors to sorrow’s waves.