Job 38:8

Job chapter 38 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.7When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

v.8This passage

v.9When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Proverbs 8:29
When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
Jeremiah 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who 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.
Psalms 33:7
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.
Psalms 104:8
(The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.
Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Job 38:10
And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,