Job 38:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ “Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Or who shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth and issued out of the womb?–

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;

Common English Bible

⁸ Who enclosed the Sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Who enclosed the sea with doors, when it broke forth as if issuing from the womb,

Job 38:8 Cross References

Genesis 1:9

And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

Jeremiah 5:22

Do you not fear me? says the Lord; Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.

Proverbs 8:29

when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

Psalm 33:7

He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle; he put the deeps in storehouses.

Job 38:10

and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,

Genesis 1:7

So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so.

Job 28:25

When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned out the waters by measure,

Job 38:9

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,

Psalm 104:6

You cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Proverbs 30:4

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of the hand? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is the person’s name? And what is the name of the person’s child? Surely you know!

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

Psalm 107:24

they saw the deeds of the Lord, his wondrous works in the deep.