Job 38:8

Or who shut up the yam behind doors? 1 Who brought it forth, issuing out of the rekhem (womb), 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 kokhvei boker sang together, 1 and all the Bnei Elohim shouted for joy? 1

9When I made the anan the garment thereof, 1 and thick darkness its swaddling band, 1

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Cross References

Job 38:10And fixed bounds for it, 1 and set bars and dlatot (doors), 1

Psalms 104:8They go up by the harim (mountains); 1 they go down by the beka'ot (valleys) 1 unto the makom (place) which Thou hast assigned for them. 1

Proverbs 8:29When He gave to the yam His chok (decree, limits), 1 that the mayim should not pass its limits, 1 when He appointed the foundations of the Eretz; 1

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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