Job 38:8

A Conservative Version

Or [who] shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth, [like] it had issued out of the womb,

Cross References

Genesis 1:9

And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.

Jeremiah 5:22

Do ye not fear me? says LORD. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who 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 they cannot prevai

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 gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in store-houses.

Job 38:10

and marked out for it my bound, 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 distributes the waters by measure.

Job 38:9

when I made clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

Psalm 104:6

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

Proverbs 30:4

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

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?

Psalm 107:24

these [men] see the works of LORD, and his wonders in the deep.