Job 38:8
Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
Bible in Basic English
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 made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?
9When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,
Cross References
Job 38:10Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;
Psalms 104:8The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.
Proverbs 8:29When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases 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 →