King James Version
Job 38:8 in the King James Version says “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?” — study this verse from Job chapter 38 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?”
Job 38:8 · KJV
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; foundations: Heb. sockets fastened: Heb. made to sink?
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
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,
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, brake: or, established my decree upon it
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Or who shut up”
H5526properly, to entwine as a screen; by implication, to fence in, cover over, (figuratively) protect
“the sea”
H3220a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the mediterranean sea; sometimes a large river, or an artif
“as if it had issued out”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
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