Job 38:8New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Or [who] enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— [Or who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb;
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb;
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Or [who] shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Or [who] shut vp the sea with doores, when it brake foorth [as if] it had issued out of the wombe?
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Or who shut up the sea with gates, when it broke forth as if it had issued out of the womb?
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb? |
Or [ who] shut up
5526 {5526} Primeסָכַךְcakak{saw-kak'}
A primitive root; properly to entwine as a screen; by implication to fence in, cover over, (figuratively) protect.
z8686 <8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 4046
the sea
3220 {3220} Primeיָםyam{yawm}
From an unused root meaning to roar; a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article) the Mediterranean; sometimes a large river, or an artificial basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south.
with doors,
1817 {1817} Primeדֶּלֶתdeleth{deh'-leth}
From H1802; something swinging, that is, the valve of a door.
when it brake forth,
1518 {1518} Primeגִּיחַgiyach{ghee'-akh}
A primitive root; to gush forth (as water), generally to issue.
z8800 <8800> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Infinitive (See H8812) Count - 4888
[ as if] it had issued out
3318 {3318} Primeיָצָאyatsa'{yaw-tsaw'}
A primitive root; to go (causatively bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proximate.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
of the womb?
7358
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses. |
Job 38:8
_ _ doors — floodgates; these when opened caused the flood (Genesis 8:2); or else, the shores.
_ _ womb — of chaos. The bowels of the earth. Image from childbirth (Job 38:8, Job 38:9; Ezekiel 32:2; Micah 4:10). Ocean at its birth was wrapped in clouds as its swaddling bands. |
Job 38:8
Doors — Who was it, that set bounds to the vast and raging ocean, and shut it up, as it were with doors within its proper place, that it might not overflow the earth? Break forth — From the womb or bowels of the earth, within which the waters were for the most part contained, and out of which they were by God's command brought forth into the channel which God had appointed for them. |
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Job 38:10 And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,
Genesis 1:9 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.
Psalms 33:7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Psalms 104:9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Proverbs 8:29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Jeremiah 5:22 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?
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Job 38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
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