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Job 38:8–9

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8“Who shut up the sea behind doorsl

when it burst forth from the womb,m

9when I made the clouds its garment

and wrapped it in thick darkness,n

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Cross references

  1. lver 11; Ps 33:7; Pr 8:29; Jer 5:22
  2. mSee Ge 1:9–10
  3. nSee Ge 1:2

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Or who shut in the sea with doors

when it burst out from the womb,

when I made clouds its garment

and thick darkness its swaddling band,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Who enclosed the sea behind doors

when it burst from the womb,

when I made the clouds its garment

and total darkness its blanket,

NLTNew Living Translation

“Who kept the sea inside its boundaries

as it burst from the womb,

and as I clothed it with clouds

and wrapped it in thick darkness?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“Or who shut the sea in with doors

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

at my making the clouds its garment

and thick darkness its swaddling band,

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?

When I made the cloud the garment thereof,

And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,