Job 38:9
When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
In Context
8And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
10When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,
Cross References
Genesis 1:2And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of 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 →