🌪️WEB · Job 38:8
What does Job 38:8 mean?
"“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,"
— Job 38:8 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
and said, ‘Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?’
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