Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Or [who] shut [the] sea in with doors at its bursting, [when] it went out of [the] womb,
New American Standard Bible
When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;
King James Version
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Holman Bible
when it burst from the womb,
International Standard Version
"Who enclosed the sea with limits when it gushed out of the womb,
A Conservative Version
Or [who] shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth, [like] it had issued out of the womb,
American Standard Version
Or who'shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;
Amplified
“Or who enclosed the sea with doors
When it burst forth and went out of the womb;
Bible in Basic English
Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
Darby Translation
And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
Julia Smith Translation
And he will hedge in the sea with doors in its breaking forth, going forth from the womb.
King James 2000
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Modern King James verseion
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as it came from the womb?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who shut the sea with doors, when it brake forth as a child out of his mother's womb?
NET Bible
"Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,
New Heart English Bible
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,
The Emphasized Bible
Or who shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;
Webster
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
World English Bible
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,
Youngs Literal Translation
And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.
Themes
Darkness » Exhibits God's power and greatness
Power » Divine power over nature exhibited by Christ, general examples of » The sea controlled
Interlinear
Cakak
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
7 when [the] morning stars were singing together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 "Or [who] shut [the] sea in with doors at its bursting, [when] it went out of [the] womb, 9 at my making [the] clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,
Names
Cross References
Genesis 1:9
And God said, "Let the waters under heaven be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear." And it was so.
Jeremiah 5:22
Do you not revere me?" {declares} Yahweh, "Do you not tremble {before me}? For I have placed [the] sand [as] a boundary for the sea, {as an everlasting limit}, and it cannot pass over it, and they rise and fall loudly, but they cannot prevail, and its waves roar, but they cannot pass over it.
Psalm 33:7
[He] gathered the waters of the sea like a heap. [He] put [the] deeps in storehouses.
Proverbs 8:29
{when he assigned} his limits to the sea, that waters shall not transgress his {command}, {when he marked} the foundations of the earth,
Job 38:10
and I prescribed my rule for it, and I set bars and doors,
Psalm 104:8-9
They ascended [the] mountains [and] drained though the valleys to [the] place that you established for them.