Job 38:8
Who laid down the boundaries of the sea when it was born?
Free Bible 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 stars of the morning sang together and all the angels shouted for joy.
9Who clothed it with clouds, and wrapped it in a blanket of deep darkness?
Cross References
Job 38:10I set its limits, marking its borders.
Psalms 104:8The mountains rose up and the valleys sank down to where you had determined.
Proverbs 8:29when he set limits on the sea so that the waters would not go farther than he ordered, and when he laid 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 →