Job 38:8-10

The Lord Answers Job

8 "Or who y shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb,
9 when I made clouds its garment
and z thick darkness its swaddling band,
10 and prescribed a limits for it
and set bars and doors,

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 1:9
    And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.
    Psalms 33:7
    He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.
    Psalms 104:8 - 9
    The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.
    Jeremiah 5:22
    Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
  2. Cross References
    Job 22:13
    But you say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
  3. Cross References
    Job 38:33
    Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
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