Job 38:8
What does Job 38:8 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 38:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Orwho shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;
KJV
King James Version · 1611Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Orwho shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
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Cross references
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,
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