Job 38:8
Or {who} shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, {as if} it had issued out of the womb?
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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.
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
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 themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. {They go up...: or, The mountains ascend, the valleys descend}
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
And brake up for it my decreed {place}, and set bars and doors, {brake...: or, established my decree upon it}
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. {until...: Heb. until the end of light with darkness}
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.
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.
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
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.
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein {is}: which keepeth truth for ever:
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.
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
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. {windows: or, floodgates}
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? {cut...: or, make a change} {hinder...: Heb. turn him away?}
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. {bottom: Heb. roots}
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
And it shall be, {that} thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
But the children of Israel walked upon dry {land} in the midst of the sea; and the waters {were} a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.