Job 38:8

In 11 translations

BSB

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

KJV

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

WEB

“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke 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;

LSV

And He shuts up the sea with doors, || In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:

GNV

Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:

JPS

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

LXXE

And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out of its mother's womb.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וַיָּ֣סֶךְ בִּדְלָתַ֣יִם יָ֑ם בְּ֝גִיח֗וֹ מֵרֶ֥חֶם יֵצֵֽא׃

LXX-Br

Ἔφραξα δὲ θάλασσαν πύλαις, ὅτε ἐμαίμασσεν ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐγῆς ἐκπορευομένη·

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Cross-references most cited first

• Genesis 1:9And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.
• Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but…
• Proverbs 8:29when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
• Psalms 104:8–9the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them— You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
• Psalms 33:7He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.
• Job 38:10when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

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