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Job 38:8
8“Or who enclosed the sea with doors When it burst forth and went out of the womb;
Job 38:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
- New International Version (NIV)“Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Or who shut in the sea with doors, When it burst forth and issued from the womb;
Context of Job 38:8
6On what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, 7When the morning stars sang together And all the sons of God (angels) shouted for joy? “Or who enclosed the sea with doors When it burst forth and went out of the womb; 9When I made the clouds its garment And thick darkness its swaddling band, 10And marked for it My [appointed] boundary And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines],
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וַיָּ֣סֶךְ בִּדְלָתַ֣יִם יָ֑ם בְּ֝גִיח֗וֹ מֵרֶ֥חֶם יֵצֵֽא׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 38:8
- Job 38:10And marked for it My [appointed] boundary And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines],
- Genesis 1:9Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place [of standing, pooling together], and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
- Psalms 33:7He gathers the waters of the sea together as in a wineskin; He puts the deeps in storehouses.
- Psalms 104:9You set a boundary [for the waters] that they may not cross over, So that they will not return to cover the earth.
- Proverbs 8:29When He set for the sea its boundary So that the waters would not transgress [the boundaries set by] His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth—
- Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lord. ‘Do you not tremble [in awe] in My presence? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, An eternal decree and a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass. Though the waves [of the sea] toss and break, yet they cannot prevail [against the sand ordained to hold them back]; Though the waves and the billows roar, yet they cannot cross over [the barrier]. [Is not such a God to be feared?]
- Job 38:29Out of whose womb has come the ice? And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
Commentaries on Job 38:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Who shut up the sea with doors - Who gathered the waters together into one place, and fixed the sea its limits, so that it cannot overpass them to inundate the earth? When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? - This is a very fine metaphor. The sea is represented as a newly born infant issuing from the womb of the void and formless chaos; and the delicate circumstance of the liquor amnii, which bursts out previously to the birth of the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Or who shut up the sea with doors - This refers also to the act of the creation, and to the fact that God fixed limits to the raging of the ocean. The word “doors” is used here rather to denote gates, such as are made to shut up water in a dam. The Hebrew word properly refers, in the dual form which is used here דלתים delethiym ), to “double doors,” or to folding doors, and is also applied to the gates of a city; Deuteronomy 3:5; 1 Samuel 23:7; Isaiah…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-11Verses 4-11 For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, even concerning the earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God's work, so we need not fear concerning it. The works of his providence, as well as the work of creation, never can be broken; and the work of redemption is no less firm, of which Christ himself is both the Foundation and the Corner-stone. The church stands as firm as the earth.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-41God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. doors--floodgates; these when opened caused the flood (Ge 8:2); or else, the shores. womb--of chaos. The bowels of the earth. Image from childbirth (Job 38:8, 9; Eze 32:2; Mi 4:10). Ocean at its birth was wrapped in clouds as its swaddling bands.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 38
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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