Job 38:8

“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?”

King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations for Job 38:8

Or who shut vp the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as if it had issued out of the wombe?
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

"Or {who} enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;
- New American Standard Version (1995)

Or `who' shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, `as if' it had issued out of the womb;
- American Standard Version (1901)

Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
- Basic English Bible

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
- Berean Standard Bible Bible

And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
- Darby Bible

Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb :
- Douay-Rheims Bible

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;
- English Revised Version

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,
- World English Bible

Bible Commentary for Job 38:8

Wesley's Notes for Job 38:8


38:8 Doors - Who was it, that set bounds to the vast and raging ocean, and shut it up, as it were with doors within its proper place, that it might not overflow the earth? Break forth - From the womb or bowels of the earth, within which the waters were for the most part contained, and out of which they were by God's command brought forth into the channel which God had appointed for them.


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