Job 38:8
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 heaven 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 the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which 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 his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
- Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
- Ps 104:8-9 : 8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast 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 brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,
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28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
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7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
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10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
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4 ¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
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16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
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8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, [and] the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
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33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
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24 When [there were] no depths, I was brought forth; when [there were] no fountains abounding with water.
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7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
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15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
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12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
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10 [Art] thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
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10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
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2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
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12 [Am] I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
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15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
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16 When he uttereth [his] voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
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8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, [and whatsoever] passeth through the paths of the seas.
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30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
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13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.