Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who shut the sea with doors, when it brake forth as a child out of his mother's 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?
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?
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 Where wast thou, when the morning stars praised me together, and all the children of God rejoiced triumphantly? 8 Who shut the sea with doors, when it brake forth as a child out of his mother's womb? 9 When I made the clouds to be a covering for it, and swaddled it with the dark;
Names
Cross References
Genesis 1:9
And God said, "Let the waters that are under heaven gather themselves unto one place, that the dry land may appear." And it came so to pass.
Jeremiah 5:22
Fear ye not me, sayeth the LORD? Are ye not ashamed, to look me in the face? Which bind the sea with the sand, so that it cannot pass his bounds: for though it rage, yet can it do nothing; and though the waves thereof do swell, yet may they not go over.
Psalm 33:7
He gathereth the waters of the sea together, as it were upon a heap, and layeth up the deep, as in a treasure-house.
Proverbs 8:29
When he shut the sea within certain bounds, that the waters should not go over their marks. When he laid the foundations of the earth,
Job 38:10
When I gave it my commandment, making doors and bars for it;
Psalm 104:8-9
Then are the hills seen aloft, and the valleys beneath - in their place which thou hast appointed for them.