Who enclosed the sea behind doors
when it burst from the womb,
when I made the clouds its garment
and total darkness its blanket,[a](A)
10 when I determined its boundaries[b]
and put its bars and doors in place,
11 when I declared, “You may come this far, but no farther;
your proud waves stop here”?

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Footnotes

  1. 38:9 Lit swaddling clothes
  2. 38:10 Lit I broke my statute on it

He gathers the water of the sea into a heap;[a]
he puts the depths into storehouses.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 33:7 LXX, Tg, Syr, Vg, Jer read sea as in a bottle

He spread the land on the waters.(A)
His faithful love endures forever.

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22 Do you not fear me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Do you not tremble before me,
the one who set the sand as the boundary of the sea,
an enduring barrier that it cannot cross?(A)
The waves surge, but they cannot prevail.
They roar but cannot pass over it.

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They deliberately overlook this: By the word of God(A) the heavens came into being long ago and the earth was brought about from water and through water.(B)

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