Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.
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?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Or [who] shut [the] sea in with doors at its bursting, [when] it went 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,
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 In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy, 8 And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out. 9 In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,
Names
Cross References
Genesis 1:9
And God saith, 'Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.
Jeremiah 5:22
Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.
Psalm 33:7
Gathering as a heap the waters of the sea, Putting in treasuries the depths.
Proverbs 8:29
In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,
Job 38:10
And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,
Psalm 104:8-9
They go up hills -- they go down valleys, Unto a place Thou hast founded for them.