Job 38:8
Or [who] shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth, [like] it had issued out of the womb,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
In Context
7when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
9when I made clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
Cross References
Job 38:10and marked out for it my bound, and set bars and doors,
Psalms 104:8The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which thou had founded for them.
Proverbs 8:29when he gave to the sea its bound that the waters should not transgress his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
Matthew Henry on Job 38:5-12
The Creation of the World. ( b. c. 1520.) 4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9 When I made the… Read the whole commentary →