King James Version

Job 38:10

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

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וָאֶשְׁבֹּ֣רvaeshborand breakשָׁבַרconjunction, verb, qal, sequential imperfect, 1st person, common, singular — “and break”, the next action in the storyH7665to burst (literally or figuratively)break (down, off, in pieces, up), broken (-hearted), bring to the birth, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, [idiom] quite, tear, view (by mistake for H7663 (שָׂבַר)).עָלָ֣יוalayvaboveעַלpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “above”H5921above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applicationsabove, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of,…חֻקִּ֑יchuqiappointedחֹקnoun, common, masculine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “appointed”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH2706an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, [idiom] necessary, ordinance(-nary), portion, set time, statute, task.וָֽ֝אָשִׂ֗יםvaasimand putשׂוּםconjunction, verb, qal, sequential imperfect, 1st person, common, singular — “and put”, the next action in the storyH7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)[idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase]…בְּרִ֣יחַberichafugitiveבְּרִיחַnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “fugitive”, the ordinary formH1280a boltbar, fugitive.וּדְלָתָֽיִםudelatayimand doorדֶּלֶתconjunction, noun, common, feminine, dual, absolute — “and door”, the ordinary formH1817something swinging, i.e. the valve of adoordoor (two-leaved), gate, leaf, lid. (Psalm 141:3).

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

And prescribed for it My decree, and set bars and doors,

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American Standard Version (1901)

And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,

Young’s Literal Translation

And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

World English Bible

marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

Darby Translation

When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,

Douay-Rheims

I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

And prescribed for it My decree, and set bars and doors,

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἐθέμην δὲ αὐτῇ ὅρια, περιθεὶς κλεῖθρα καὶ πύλας.