Parallel Verses
World English Bible
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from 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?
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?
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 broke forth from the womb, 9 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
Names
Cross References
Genesis 1:9
God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.
Jeremiah 5:22
Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'
Psalm 33:7
He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
Proverbs 8:29
when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;
Job 38:10
marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
Psalm 104:8-9
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.