Job 38:8

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

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.

Genesis 1:9

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

Job 28:25

To make the weight for the winds; and he weighs the waters by measure.

Job 38:10

And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

Job 38:9

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling cloth for it,

Psalm 104:6

You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

Psalm 107:24

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

Psalm 33:7

He gathers the waters of the sea together as an heap: he lays up the depth in storehouses.

Proverbs 30:4

Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? who has gathered the wind in his fists? who has bound the waters in a garment? who has established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you can tell?

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:

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?

Jeremiah 5:22

Fear you not me? said the LORD: will you 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?