Job 38:9
when I stationed a cloud as its garment and wrapped it in a mist as if swaddling an infant?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
In Context
8Who enclosed the sea with doors, when it broke forth as if issuing from the womb,
10I encircled it with my limits, and I positioned its bars and doors.
Cross References
Genesis 1:2But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters.
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 →