Job 38:8

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:9 : 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
  • Prov 8:29 : 29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.
  • Ps 104:8-9 : 8 (The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them. 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
  • Job 38:10 : 10 And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,

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