the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Job 38:8
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"Who kept the sea inside its boundaries as it burst from the womb,
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;
Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, When it broke forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb;
"Who shut the doors to keep the sea in when it broke through and was born,
"Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,
Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it broke forth from the womb,
"Or who enclosed the sea with doors When it burst forth and went out of the womb;
"Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,
Who closide togidere the see with doris, whanne it brak out comynge forth as of the wombe?
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
When the ocean was born, I set its boundaries
Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;
Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
"Who shut up the sea behind closed doors when it gushed forth from the womb,
And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
"Who closed the flood gates as the sea gushed from the womb?
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, and issued out of the womb;
Or who shut vp the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as if it had issued out of the wombe?
"Who shut up the sea with doors, when it rushed out from its secret place?
"Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb?—
Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:
Or who shut up the sea with gates, when it broke forth as if it had issued out of the womb?
Who closed the gates to hold back the sea when it burst from the womb of the earth?
Or who shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;
Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:
"Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst forth from the womb;
Who shut the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as out of the wombe?
And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother’s womb.
Who enclosed the sea behind doorswhen it burst from the womb,
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it broke forth from the womb,
"Or who shut the sea in with doors at its bursting, when it went out of the womb,
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst out; it came forth from the womb?
And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.
Who shutt the see with dores, when it brake forth as a childe out off his mothers wombe?
"Or who enclosed the sea with doors When it went out from the womb, bursting forth;
"Or who shut in the sea with doors, When it burst forth and issued from the womb;
"Or who enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;
"Or who enclosed the sea with doorsWhen, bursting forth, it went out from the womb,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
who: Job 38:10, Genesis 1:9, Psalms 33:7, Psalms 104:9, Proverbs 8:29, Jeremiah 5:22
out: Job 38:29
Reciprocal: Genesis 7:11 - all Exodus 14:29 - walked 1 Kings 17:4 - I have commanded Job 11:10 - shut up Job 26:10 - compassed Job 36:30 - and Job 38:28 - Hath the Psalms 24:2 - and Psalms 29:10 - sitteth Psalms 65:7 - noise Psalms 89:9 - General Psalms 107:24 - his wonders Psalms 146:6 - the sea Proverbs 3:20 - the depths Matthew 8:26 - and rebuked Luke 8:25 - being
Cross-References
And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
And the thing which he did displeased the Lord : wherefore he slew him also.
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.
And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Or [who] shut up the sea with doors,.... From the earth the transition is to the sea, according to the order of the creation; and this refers not to the state and case of the sea as at the flood, of which some interpret it, but as at its first creation; and it is throughout this account represented as an infant, and here first as in embryo, shut up in the bowels of the earth, where it was when first created with it, as an infant shut up in its mother's womb, and with the doors of it; see Job 3:10; the bowels of the earth being the storehouses where God first laid up the deep waters, Psalms 33:7; and when the chaos, the misshapen earth, was like a woman big with child;
when it brake forth out of the abyss, as the Targum, with force and violence, as Pharez broke out of his mother's womb; for which reason he had his name given, which signifies a breach, Genesis 38:29; so it follows,
[as if] it had issued out of the womb; as a child out of its mother's womb; so the sea burst forth and issued out of the bowels of the earth, and covered it all around, as in Psalms 104:6; and now it was that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, before they were drained off the earth; this was the first open visible production of the sea, and nay be called the birth of it; see Genesis 1:2. Something like this the Heathen philosopher Archelaus had a notion of, who says g, the sea was shut up in hollow places, and was as it were strained through the earth.
g Laert. Vit. Philosoph. l. 2. p. 99.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Or who shut up the sea with doors - This refers also to the act of the creation, and to the fact that God fixed limits to the raging of the ocean. The word “doors” is used here rather to denote gates, such as are made to shut up water in a dam. The Hebrew word properly refers, in the dual form which is used here דלתים delethiym), to “double doors,” or to folding doors, and is also applied to the gates of a city; Deuteronomy 3:5; 1 Samuel 23:7; Isaiah 45:1. The idea is, that the floods were bursting forth from the abyss or the center of the earth, and were checked by placing gates or doors which restrained them. Whether this is designed to be a poetic or a real description of what took place at the creation, it is not easy to determine. Nothing forbids the idea that something like this may have occurred when the waters in the earth were pouring forth tumultuously, and when they were restrained by obstructions placed there by the hand of God, as if he had made gates through which they could pass only when he should open them. This supposition also would accord well with the account of the flood in Genesis 7:11, where it is said that “the fountains of the great deep were broken up,” as if those flood-gates had been opened, or the obstructions which God had placed there had been suffered to be broken through, and the waters of their own accord flowed over the world. We know as yet too little of the interior of the earth, to ascertain whether this is to be understood as a literal description of what actually occurred.
When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb - All the images here are taken from child-birth. The ocean is represented as being born, and then as invested with clouds and darkness as its covering and its swaddling-bands. The image is a bold one, and I do not know that it is any where else applied to the formation of the ocean.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 38:8. Who shut up the sea with doors — Who gathered the waters together into one place, and fixed the sea its limits, so that it cannot overpass them to inundate the earth?
When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? — This is a very fine metaphor. The sea is represented as a newly born infant issuing from the womb of the void and formless chaos; and the delicate circumstance of the liquor amnii, which bursts out previously to the birth of the foetus, alluded to. The allusion to the birth of a child is carried on in the next verse.
