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Job 38:8

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Job 38:8 · King James Version

In other versions

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

    ASV

  • Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

    BBE

  • And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?

    DBY

  • "Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it broke forth from the womb,

    WEB

  • And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

    YLT

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

    ENG

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

    WBT

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

    BSB

In context

6Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

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

8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

10And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

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