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Read Full Chapter (Job 38) Job 38:8-10 KJV
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,"
Job 38:8-10 in Context (Verses 5–13 KJV)
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Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
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Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;**
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When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
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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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When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
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And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,*
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And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?*
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Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
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That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?*