Job 38:8 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

"Who shut the sea behind gates when it burst through and came out of the womb,(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

ASV:

Or who'shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;

BBE:

Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

DBY:

And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?

ERV:

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;

JPS:

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, and issued out of the womb;

WBS:

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

WEB:

"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

YLT:

And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

Job 38:8 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 1:9 Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.

Psalm 104:6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.

Proverbs 8:29 When He set for the sea its boundary So that the water would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth;

Jeremiah 5:22 'Do you not fear Me?' declares the LORD. 'Do you not tremble in My presence? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, An eternal decree, so it cannot cross over it. Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

38:8 Doors - Who was it, that set bounds to the vast and raging ocean, and shut it up, as it were with doors within its proper place, that it might not overflow the earth? Break forth - From the womb or bowels of the earth, within which the waters were for the most part contained, and out of which they were by God's command brought forth into the channel which God had appointed for them.

MHC:

38:4-11 For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, even concerning the earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God's work, so we need not fear concerning it. The works of his providence, as well as the work of creation, never can be broken; and the work of redemption is no less firm, of which Christ himself is both the Foundation and the Corner-stone. The church stands as firm as the earth.

CONC:

Behind Birth Brake Broke Burst Bursting Doors Enclosed Forth Issued Issuing Pushing Secret Shut Shutteth Womb

Birth Brake Broke Burst Bursting Doors Enclosed Forth Issued Issuing Pushing Sea Secret Shut Shutteth Womb

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