Bible verse

Job 38:8

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Job 38:8 · BSB

Job 38:8 in context

The verses around it, from Job 38.

4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

5 Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

7 while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

9 when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

10 when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

11 and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

12 In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

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Job 38:8 in other translations

KJV

Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?

ASV

Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;

ERV

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;

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