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Job 38:8

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

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

Commentary

Commentary on Job 38:8

Theological / Devotional

Sea. From the earth God transfers Job’s attention to the sea as the second great wonder of creation (see Gen. 1:9, 10; Ex. 20:11; Ps. 104:24, 25).

Issued out. God compares the creation of the sea to the birth of an infant. The verse calls attention to two evidences of God’s power—first, the creation of the sea, and second, the limiting of the sea within its borders.

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