Job 38:8 "Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

◄ Job 38:8 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
"Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

English Standard Version
“Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,

New American Standard Bible
"Or who enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,

International Standard Version
"Who enclosed the sea with limits when it gushed out of the womb,

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

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

Cross References

Genesis 1:7
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

Job 28:25
To make the weight for the winds; and he weighs the waters by measure.

Job 38:9
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling cloth for it,

Psalm 104:6
You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

Proverbs 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:

Proverbs 30:4
Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? who has gathered the wind in his fists? who has bound the waters in a garment? who has established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you can tell?

Isaiah 40:12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Jeremiah 5:22
Fear you not me? said the LORD: will you 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?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

38:4-11 For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, even concerning the earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God's work, so we need not fear concerning it. The works of his providence, as well as the work of creation, never can be broken; and the work of redemption is no less firm, of which Christ himself is both the Foundation and the Corner-stone. The church stands as firm as the earth.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. doors—floodgates; these when opened caused the flood (Ge 8:2); or else, the shores.

womb—of chaos. The bowels of the earth. Image from childbirth (Job 38:8, 9; Eze 32:2; Mic 4:10). Ocean at its birth was wrapped in clouds as its swaddling bands.