“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb, when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness, marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors, and said, ‘Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?’
⛓ Read Job 38 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The Creator who set bounds for the sea, saying 'thus far shall you come and no farther,' grounds the disciples' awe that the winds and water obey Jesus. The creational mastery-of-chaos motif gives strong theological Coherence.
Medium confidenceThe LORD's setting bounds for the sea—'thus far shall you come, but no further; and here shall your proud waves be stayed'—portrays the creator's unique authority over the deep that Jesus assumes in 4:39-41. The coherence with the disciples' awe at one who commands wind and sea is strong, supporting the figural Christology.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Creator setting bounds for the proud waves ('thus far... and no farther') grounds the figural claim that the one who calms the sea wields divine creative authority over chaos.
Medium confidence