Job 38:11

when I said, ‘To here you may come ¹  and no farther, ²  here your proud waves will be confined’? ³ 

Job 1:22; Job 2:6; Ps 65:6,7; Ps 76:10; Ps 89:9; Ps 93:3,4; Pr 8:29; Isa 27:8; Mr 4:39-41; Lu 8:32,33; Re 20:2,3,7,8

¹ tn The imperfect verb receives the permission nuance here.

² tn The text has תֹסִיף (tosif, “and you may not add”), which is often used idiomatically (as in verbal hendiadys constructions).

³ tn The MT literally says, “here he will put on the pride of your waves.” The verb has no expressed subject and so is made a passive voice. But there has to be some object for the verb “put,” such as “limit” or “boundary”; the translations “confined; halted; stopped” all serve to paraphrase such an idea. The LXX has “broken” at this point, suggesting the verse might have been confused – but “breaking the pride” of the waves would mean controlling them. Some commentators have followed this, exchanging the verb in v. 11 with this one.