And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,
Ver. 10. And brake up for it my decreed place] That great house in the hollows of the earth, Job 38:8, gathering it together by a perpetual and powerful decree, into that place and pit. Tremellius renderetb it, Quum diffregi pro eo terram decreto meo, When I brake up for it the earth by my decree. Others, And laid upon it nay statute; for shabhar signifieth also statuere, decernere, say they; but that is more than I know.
And set bars and doors] Vectes et valvas. See Job 38:8. This is a work of God's great power; and is therefore much instanced and insisted upon in Scripture, Psa 109:1-31 Jeremiah 5:22, &c. God could have put many other hard questions to Job about the sea; as, why it swelleth not by the inflowing of so many great rivers? why the waters of it are so salt? whence it is that it so ebbeth and floweth? &c. Aristotle showeth himself no very wise man in answering these questions; whom yet Averroes so madly admireth, that he saith there is no error at all to be found in him; and that his doctrine is the chiefest truth.