Job 38:8
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
KJV
Quis conclusit ostiis mare, quando erumpebat quasi de vulva procedens ;
Vulgate
ἔφραξα δὲ θάλασσαν πύλαις, ὅτε ἐμαίμασσεν ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐτὴ ἐκπορευομένη·
LXX
Orwho shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;
ASV
וַ/יָּ֣סֶךְ בִּ/דְלָתַ֣יִם יָ֑ם בְּ֝/גִיח֗/וֹ מֵ/רֶ֥חֶם יֵצֵֽא
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
דַּלְת֣וֹת
dltvt
noun · 89×
ה
h
noun · 393×
ם
m
verb · 1071×
נִי
ny
verb · 24×
רֶ֖חֶם
rchm
noun · 26×
תָּ֣גַח
tgch
verb · 6×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Gen 1:7 — And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
- Gen 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.
- Gen 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.
- Gen 7:11 — In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
- Jer 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
- Job 26:10 — He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
- Job 38:10 — And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
- Job 38:28 — Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
- Job 38:29 — Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
- Luke 8:25 — And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.
- Matt 8:26 — And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
- Prov 3:20 — By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
- Prov 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:
- Ps 24:2 — For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
- Ps 29:10 — The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
- Ps 33:7 — He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
- Ps 33:7 — He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
- Ps 89:9 — Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
- Ps 104:8 — They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
- Ps 146:6 — Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever: