Job 38:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:9 : 9 And God saith, `Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.
  • Prov 8:29 : 29 In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 Gathering as a heap the waters of the sea, Putting in treasuries the depths.
  • Ps 104:8-9 : 8 They go up hills -- they go down valleys, Unto a place Thou hast founded for them. 9 A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.
  • Job 38:10 : 10 And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

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    28Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

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