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Job Chapter 38 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV Job 38:8

Or `who' shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, `as if' it had issued out of the womb;
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BBE Job 38:8

Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
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DARBY Job 38:8

And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
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KJV Job 38:8

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
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WBT Job 38:8

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
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WEB Job 38:8

"Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it broke forth from the womb,
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YLT Job 38:8

And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - Or who shut up the sea with doors? From the earth a transition is made to the sea, as the second great wonder in creation (comp. Genesis 1:9, 10; Exodus 20:11; Psalm 104:24, 25). God's might is especially shown in his power to control and confine the sea, which rages so terribly and seems so utterly uncontrollable. God has blocked it in "with doors" - i.e. with "bounds that it cannot pass, neither turn again to cover the earth" (Psalm 145:9). Sometimes the barrier is one of lofty and solid rock, which seems well suited to confine and restrain; but sometimes it is no more than a thin streak of sliver sand or a bank of loose, shifting pebbles. Yet, in both cases alike, the restraint suffices. "The sand is placed for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it" (Jeremiah 5:22); the beach of shifting pebbles remains as firm as the rock itself, and never recedes or advances more than a few feet. When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb; i.e. at its birth, when it was first formed, by the gathering together of the waters into one place (see Genesis 1:9).

Ellicott's Commentary