Job 38:8

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, and issued out of the womb;

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

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Cross References

Job 38:10And prescribed for it My decree, and set bars and doors,

Psalms 104:8The mountains rose, the valleys sank down — unto the place which Thou hadst founded for them;

Proverbs 8:29When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not transgress His commandment, when He appointed 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 →

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