Verse Comparison: Job 38:8
American Standard Version
Or `who' shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, `as if' it had issued out of the womb;
Amplified® Bible
Or who shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth {and} issued out of the womb?--
Contemporary English Version
When the ocean was born, I set its boundaries
Darby English Version
And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
Good News Bible
Who closed the gates to hold back the sea when it burst from the womb of the earth?
King James Version
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
New American Standard Bible
"Or {who} enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;
New International Version
"Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
New King James Version
“Or who shut in the sea with doors,
When it burst forth and issued from the womb;
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Or who enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;
Revised Standard Version
"Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst forth from the womb;
Young's Literal Translation
And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.
