Job 38:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

Cross References

Genesis 1:7

And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

Genesis 1:9

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

Job 28:25

When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;

Job 38:10

Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

Job 38:9

When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

Psalm 104:6

Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

Psalm 107:24

They see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

Psalm 33:7

He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

Proverbs 30:4

Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

Proverbs 8:29

When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

Isaiah 40:12

In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

Jeremiah 5:22

Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.