Job 38:8

American Standard Version 2015

Or {\i who} shut up the sea with doors,\par\tab When it brake forth, {\i as if} it had issued out of the womb;

Cross References

Genesis 1:9

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

Jeremiah 5:22

Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: 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 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,\par\tab That the waters should not transgress his commandment,\par\tab When he marked out the foundations of the earth;

Psalm 33:7

He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap:\par\tab He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.

Job 38:10

And marked out for it my bound,\par\tab 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:\par\tab Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.

Job 38:9

When I made clouds the garment thereof,\par\tab And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

Psalm 104:6

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

Proverbs 30:4

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

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 Jehovah,\par\tab And his wonders in the deep.