Job 38:8

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake 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 unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

Job 28:25

To make the weight for the winds; And he weigheth the waters by measure.

Job 38:10

And brake 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 swaddlingband for it,

Psalm 104:6

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

Proverbs 30:4

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

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?