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Job 38:8
“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
Job 38:8 · World English Bible
Job 38:8 in other translations
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,
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In context
5 Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
6 What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
9 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
11 and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
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