Job 38:8 - Forerunner Commentary

Job 38:8

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6 To what were its foundations fastened?
Or who laid its cornerstone,

7 When the morning stars sang together,
And all ^athe sons of God shouted for joy?

8 “Or^a who shut in the sea with doors,
When it burst forth and issued from the womb;

9 When I made the clouds its garment,
And thick darkness its swaddling band;

10 When ^aI fixed My limit for it,
And set bars and doors;

11 When I said,
‘This far you may come, but no farther,
And here your proud waves ^amust stop!’

12 “Have you ^acommanded the morning since your days began,
And caused the dawn to know its place,

13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
And ^athe wicked be shaken out of it?

Verse Comparison: Job 38:8

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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.

New English Translation
“Who shut up¹ the sea with doors when it burst forth,² coming out of the womb,

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