Job 38:8

Modern English Version

“Or who shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth and went out of the womb?

Cross References

Genesis 1:7

So God made the expanse and separated the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse. And it was so.

Genesis 1:9

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

Job 28:25

to make the weight of the wind, 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 its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

Psalm 104:6

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

Psalm 107:24

they have seen the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep.

Psalm 33:7

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He puts the deeps in storehouses.

Proverbs 30:4

Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of His hands? Who has bound the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name? And what is the name of His son? Surely you know!

Proverbs 8:29

when He assigned to the sea its boundary, so that the waters might not transgress His command, when He marked out 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 calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Jeremiah 5:22

Do you not fear Me? says the Lord. Will you not tremble at My presence? For I have placed the sand for the boundary of the sea by a perpetual decree so that it cannot pass over it. And though the waves toss themselves, yet they cannot prevail; though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.