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Job 38:8
8And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing 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
6Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken? or who laid its corner-stone, 7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb? 9When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it; 10When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,
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וַיָּ֣סֶךְ בִּדְלָתַ֣יִם יָ֑ם בְּ֝גִיח֗וֹ מֵרֶ֥חֶם יֵצֵֽא׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 38:8
- Job 38:10When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,
- Genesis 1:9And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry [land] appear. And it was so.
- Psalms 33:7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; he layeth up the deeps in storehouses.
- Psalms 104:9Thou hast set a bound which they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
- Proverbs 8:29when he imposed on the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
- Jeremiah 5:22Will ye not fear me? saith Jehovah. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have set the sand a bound for the sea by a perpetual decree, and it shall not pass it? and its waves toss themselves, but they do not prevail; and they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
- Job 38:29Out of whose womb cometh the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who bringeth it forth?
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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