Job 38:8
And He shuts up the sea with doors, || In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb.
Literal Standard 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
7In the singing together of [the] stars of morning, || When all [the] sons of God shout for joy?
9In My making a cloud its clothing, || And thick darkness its swaddling band,
Cross References
Job 38:10And I measure My statute over it, || And place bar and doors,
Psalms 104:8They go up hills—they go down valleys, || To a place You have founded for them.
Proverbs 8:29In His setting for the sea its limit, || And the waters do not transgress His command, || In His decreeing the foundations of 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 →