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954 B
Yahweh continues to challenge Job.
I marked out for the sea my boundary
"I made a boundary for the sea"
boundary
Yahweh created a border around the sea that the seas was not allowed to cross.
I placed its bars and doors
Yahweh compares the way that he made a boundary for the sea to containing the sea with bars and doors. AT: "I put barriers so that the water would not come over the land." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
bars
a long piece of wood or metal that is used to lock a door shut
to it
"to the sea." Yahweh speaks to the sea as though it were a person." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification)
to the pride of your waves
Yahweh speaks about the waves as though they were people. It is implied that the waves are proud because they are powerful. AT: "for you waves that are proud because they are so powerful." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)