Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Or who'shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued 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,
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,
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 sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 Or who'shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb; 9 When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
Names
Cross References
Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Jeremiah 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
Psalm 33:7
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.
Proverbs 8:29
When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
Job 38:10
And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,
Psalm 104:8-9
(The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.