Job 38:8
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?
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 cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
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Compare
- BSB
- Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
- KJV
- Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
- WEB
- “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
- ASV
- Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb;
- DARBY
- And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
- BLB
- Or [who] shut in the sea with doors, at its coming forth in its bursting from the womb,
- ÅB
- Og hvem lukket for havet med dører, da det brøt fram og gikk ut av mors liv,
- OTB
- «Hvem stengte havet med dører
da det brøt fram fra morslivet, - B1930
- Og hvem lukket for havet med dører, da det brøt frem og gikk ut av mors liv,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Read in contextProverbs 8:29
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Read in contextJeremiah 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Read in contextPsalms 104:8–9
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
Read in contextPsalms 33:7
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Read in contextJob 38:10
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
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