Job 38:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst forth from the womb;

Cross References

Genesis 1:7

And God made the firmament and separated 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 heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

Job 28:25

When he gave to the wind its weight, and meted out the waters by measure;

Job 38:10

and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,

Job 38:9

when I made clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

Psalm 104:6

Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Psalm 107:24

they saw the deeds of the Lord, his wondrous works in the deep.

Psalm 33:7

He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle; he put the deeps in storehouses.

Proverbs 30:4

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know!

Proverbs 8:29

when he assigned to the sea its limit, 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 marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

Jeremiah 5:22

Do you not fear me? says the Lord; Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the bound for the sea, a perpetual barrier which it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail, though they roar, they cannot pass over it.