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.

¹⁰ He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

⁸ Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

⁹ When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

¹⁰ And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

¹¹ And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

¹⁶ Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

³³ To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.

⁴ Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.

²⁸ When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: