Job 38:8
Modern Translations
New International Version
"Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

New Living Translation
“Who kept the sea inside its boundaries as it burst from the womb,

English Standard Version
“Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,

Berean Study Bible
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

New American Standard Bible
“Or who enclosed the sea with doors When it went out from the womb, bursting forth;

NASB 1995
"Or who enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;

NASB 1977
“Or who enclosed the sea with doors, When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;

Amplified Bible
“Or who enclosed the sea with doors When it burst forth and went out of the womb;

Christian Standard Bible
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,

Contemporary English Version
When the ocean was born, I set its boundaries

Good News Translation
Who closed the gates to hold back the sea when it burst from the womb of the earth?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Who shut the sea behind gates when it burst through and came out of the womb,

International Standard Version
"Who enclosed the sea with limits when it gushed out of the womb,

NET Bible
"Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

New King James Version
“Or who shut in the sea with doors, When it burst forth and issued from the womb;

King James 2000 Bible
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

New Heart English Bible
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

World English Bible
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

American King James Version
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

American Standard Version
Or who'shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;

A Faithful Version
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as it came from the womb?

Darby Bible Translation
And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?

English Revised Version
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;

Webster's Bible Translation
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Who shut the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as out of the wombe?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Who shutt the see with dores, when it brake forth as a childe out off his mothers wombe?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And He shuts up the sea with doors, "" In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb.

Young's Literal Translation
And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

Smith's Literal Translation
And he will hedge in the sea with doors in its breaking forth, going forth from the womb.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb :

Catholic Public Domain Version
Who enclosed the sea with doors, when it broke forth as if issuing from the womb,

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And he shut the doors of the sea and it gushed out from the womb and it brought forth

Lamsa Bible
Or who shut up the sea with gates, when it broke forth as if it had issued out of the womb?

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it broke forth, and issued out of the womb;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb.
















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