Job 38:8

And who closed up with doors the sea, when, issuing forth, it came out of the deep bosom of the earth?

Leeser Tanakh

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 altogether sang the morning stars in gladness, and shouted for joy all the sons of God?

9When I made the clouds its garment, and thick fog its swaddling-cloth,

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Cross References

Job 38:10And when I decreed for it my law, and set [for it] bars and doors,

Psalms 104:8They ascended mountains; they went down valleys, unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.

Proverbs 8:29When he assigned to the sea his decree, that the waters should not transgress his order: when he established firmly 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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