Job 38:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Who shut the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as out of the wombe?

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:9 : 9 And God saide: let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together into one place, and let the drye lande appeare: and it was so.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Feare ye not me, saith the Lorde? will ye not tremble at my presence? which bynde the sea with the sande by a continuall decree, so that it can not passe his boundes: for though it rage, yet can it do nothing, and though the waues therof do swell, yet may they not go ouer.
  • Prov 8:29 : 29 When he shut the sea within certaine boundes, that the waters should not go ouer their markes that he commaunded: when he layde the foundations of the earth,
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as it were vpon an heape: and layeth vp the deepe as treasures.
  • Ps 104:8-9 : 8 The hilles mount aloft: and the valleys settle downe beneath vnto the place where thou hast layde a foundation for them. 9 Thou hast set them their boundes which they shall not passe: neither shall they returne agayne to couer the earth.
  • Job 38:10 : 10 When I gaue it my commaundement, making doores and barres for it,

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  • Job 38:9-13
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    9 When I made the cloudes to be a covering for it, and swadled it with the darke:

    10 When I gaue it my commaundement, making doores and barres for it,

    11 Saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hie waues.

    12 Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place,

    13 That it might take holde of the corners of the earth, and that the vngodly might be shaken out of it.

  • Job 38:7
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    7 Where wast thou when the morning starres praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced triumphantly?

  • Job 38:16-18
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    16 Camest thou euer into the grounde of the sea, or walkedst in the lowe corners of the deepe?

    17 Haue the gates of death ben opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the doores of the shadowe of death?

    18 Hast thou also perceaued how brode the earth is? If thou hast knowledge of all this:

  • Prov 8:27-29
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    27 For when he made the heauens, I was present, when he compassed the deapthes about:

    28 When he hanged the cloudes aboue, when he fastened the springes of the deepe:

    29 When he shut the sea within certaine boundes, that the waters should not go ouer their markes that he commaunded: when he layde the foundations of the earth,

  • Job 38:28-30
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    28 Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the deawe?

    29 Out of whose wombe came the yce? Who hath gendred the coldnesse of the ayre?

    30 That the waters are hidde as with a stone, and lye congealed aboue the deepe.

  • Job 9:7-8
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    7 He commaundeth the sunne, and it ryseth not: he closeth vp the starres as vnder a signet.

    8 He hym selfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and goeth vpon the waues of the sea.

  • Job 38:24-25
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    24 By what way is the light parted? and into what land breaketh the east winde?

    25 Who deuideth the waters into diuers chanels? or who maketh a way for the lightening and thunder,

  • Job 3:10
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    10 Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hyd sorowe from myne eyes.

  • Job 38:37-38
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    37 Who numbreth the cloudes in wysdome? who stilleth the vehement waters of the heauen?

    38 To cause the earth to grow into hardnesse, & the clots to cleaue fast together?

  • Job 38:4-5
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    4 Where wast thou when I layed the foundations of the earth? Tell playnely, if thou hast vnderstanding.

    5 Who hath measured it, knowest thou? or who hath spread the lyne vpon it?

  • 2 Sam 22:16
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    16 The chanels of the sea appeared: and the foundatios of the world were seene, by the reason of ye rebuking of the Lord, and through the blasting of the breath of his nosthryls.

  • Exod 15:8
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    8 Through the wynde of thy nosethrils the water gathered together, ye fluddes stoode styll as an heape, and the deepe water congeled together in the heart of the sea.

  • Job 38:33-34
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    33 Knowest thou the course of heauen, that thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce thereof vpon the earth?

    34 Moreouer, canst thou lift vp thy voyce to the cloudes, that they may powre downe a great rayne vpon thee?

  • Prov 8:24
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    24 When I was borne there were neither depthes nor springes of water.

  • Ps 33:7
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    7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as it were vpon an heape: and layeth vp the deepe as treasures.

  • Ps 18:15
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    15 And the bottomes of waters appeared, and the foundations of the rounde worlde were discouered at thy chidyng, O God: at the blast of the breath of thine anger.

  • Job 26:12
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    12 He stilleth the sea with his power, and through his wysdome smyteth he the strength therof.

  • Isa 51:10
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    10 Art not thou the same arme that hast wounded the proude, and hewen the dragon in peeces? Art not thou euen the same which hast dryed vp the deepe of the sea, which hast made playne the sea grounde, that the deliuered myght go through?

  • Job 26:10
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    10 He hath compassed the waters with certayne boundes, vntill the day and night come to an ende.

  • Gen 8:2
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    2 The fountaynes also of the deepe, and the windowes of heauen were stopped, and the rayne from heauen was restrayned.

  • Job 7:12
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    12 Am I a sea or a whale fish, that thou kepest me so in prison?

  • Ps 74:15
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    15 Thou broughtest out fountaynes and waters out of the harde rockes: thou dyddest drye vp mightie waters.

  • Job 11:9-10
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    9 The measure of it is longer then the earth, and broder then the sea.

    10 Though he turne all thinges vpsyde downe, close them in, gather them together, who will turne hym from his purpose?

  • Job 38:22
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    22 Wentest thou euer into the treasures of the snow, or hast thou seene the secrete places of the hayle,

  • Isa 43:16
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    16 Thus saith the Lorde, euen he that maketh away in the sea, and a foote path in the mightie waters.

  • Job 28:11
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    11 He bindeth the fluddes that they do not ouerflow: and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light.

  • Ps 65:7
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    7 Who stilleth the raging of the sea, and the noyse of his waues: and the vprore of the people.

  • Job 12:14-15
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    14 Beholde if he breake downe a thing, who can set it vp againe? yf he shut a thing, who wyll open it?

    15 Beholde, if he withholde the waters, they drye vp: yf he let them go, they destroy the earth.

  • Ps 89:9
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    9 Thou rulest the ragyng of the sea: when her waues aryse, thou delayest them.

  • Jer 51:16
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    16 Assoone as he letteth his voyce be hearde, the waters in the ayre waxe fierce: he draweth vp the cloudes from the endes of the earth, he turneth the lightnynges to rayne, he bryngeth the wyndes out of their secrete places.

  • Ps 8:8
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    8 the foules of the ayre, and the fishe of the sea, and whatsoeuer swymmeth in the seas.

  • Job 36:30
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    30 Behold, he doth stretch his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.

  • Ps 74:13
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    13 Thou didst deuide the sea through thy power: thou brakest the heades of the dragons in the waters.