Job 38:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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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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 heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

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.

Proverbs 8:29

When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment: When he marked out the foundations of the earth:

Psalm 33:7

He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: He layeth up the deeps in storehouses.

Job 38:10

And prescribed for it my decree, And set bars and doors,

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.

Job 28:25

To make a weight for the wind; Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.

Job 38:9

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

Psalm 104:6

Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.

Proverbs 30:4

Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in his garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou knowest?

Isaiah 40:12

Who hath 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?

Psalm 107:24

These see the works of the LORD, And his wonders in the deep.