Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"Who enclosed the sea with limits when it gushed out of 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,
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?
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 while the morning stars sang together and all the divine beings shouted joyfully? 8 "Who enclosed the sea with limits when it gushed out of the womb, 9 when I made clouds to be its clothes and thick darkness its swaddling blanket,
Names
Cross References
Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the water beneath the sky come together into one area, and let dry ground appear!" And that is what happened:
Jeremiah 5:22
"You don't fear me, do you?' declares the LORD. "You don't tremble before me, do you? I'm the one who put the sand as a boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot cross. Though the waves toss, they cannot prevail against it, though they roar, they cannot cross it.'
Psalm 33:7
He gathered the oceans into a single place; he put the deep water into storehouses.
Proverbs 8:29
when he set a boundary for the sea so the waters would not exceed his limits, when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
Job 38:10
when I proscribed a boundary for it, set in place bars and doors for it;
Psalm 104:8-9
Mountains rise up and valleys sink to the place you have ordained for them.