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Job 38:8

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38:8“Who shut up14 the sea with doors

when it burst forth,15 coming out of the womb,

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Footnotes

  1. 14 The has “and he shut up.” The has “Who?” and so many commentaries and editions adopt this reading, if not from the , then from the sense of the sequence in the text itself.
  2. 15 The line uses two expressions, first the temporal clause with גִּיחַ (giakh, “when it burst forth”) and then the finite verb יֵצֵא (yetse’, “go out”) to mark the concomitance of the two actions.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Or who shut in the sea with doors

when it burst out from the womb,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Who shut up the sea behind doors

when it burst forth from the womb,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Who enclosed the sea behind doors

when it burst from the womb,

NLTNew Living Translation

“Who kept the sea inside its boundaries

as it burst from the womb,

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“Or who shut the sea in with doors

at its bursting, when it went out of the womb,

KJV 1900King James Version

Or who shut up the sea with doors,

When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?