Job 38:8

New Century Version

“Who shut the doors to keep the sea in when it broke through and was born,

Cross References

Genesis 1:7

So God made the air and placed some of the water above the air and some below it.

Genesis 1:9

Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered together so the dry land will appear.” And it happened.

Job 28:25

When God gave power to the wind and measured the water,

Job 38:10

when I put limits on the sea and put its doors and bars in place,

Job 38:9

when I made the clouds like a coat for the sea and wrapped it in dark clouds,

Psalm 104:6

You covered the earth with oceans; the water was above the mountains.

Psalm 107:24

They saw what the Lord could do, the miracles he did in the deep oceans.

Psalm 33:7

He gathered the water of the sea into a heap. He made the great ocean stay in its place.

Proverbs 30:4

Who has gone up to heaven and come back down? Who can hold the wind in his hand? Who can gather up the waters in his coat? Who has set in place the ends of the earth? What is his name or his son’s name? Tell me, if you know!

Proverbs 8:29

I was there when he ordered the sea not to go beyond the borders he had set. I was there when he laid the earth’s foundation.

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the oceans in the palm of his hand? Who has used his hand to measure the sky? Who has used a bowl to measure all the dust of the earth and scales to weigh the mountains and hills?

Jeremiah 5:22

Surely you are afraid of me,” says the Lord. “You should shake with fear in my presence. I am the one who made the beaches to be a border for the sea, a border the water can never go past. The waves may pound the beach, but they can’t win over it. They may roar, but they cannot go beyond it.