Job 38:8 · KJV
“Or {who} shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, {as if} it had issued out of the womb?”
— Job 38:8
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
Job 38 — Context
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; {foundations: Heb. sockets} {fastened: Heb. made to sink?}
7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8Or {who} shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, {as if} it had issued out of the womb?
9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10And brake up for it my decreed {place}, and set bars and doors, {brake...: or, established my decree upon it}
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.
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:
Jeremiah 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?
Psalms 104:8-9
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. {They go up...: or, The mountains ascend, the valleys descend}
Psalms 33:7
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Job 38:10
And brake up for it my decreed {place}, and set bars and doors, {brake...: or, established my decree upon it}