Job 38:8

Or [who] shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 put a cloud as the garment thereof, and a thick cloud as the swaddling-band thereof;

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Cross References

Job 38:10And brake off for it my boundary, and fixed a bar and double doors;

Psalms 104:8Mountains rise, Valleys sink, Unto the place which thou hast fixed for them;

Proverbs 8:29When he fixed for the sea its bound, that, the waters, should not go beyond his bidding, when he decreed 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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