8Or 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.
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?
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. …
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-11)For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance even concerning the earth and the sea. Though so near, though so bulky, yet he could give no account of their origination, much less of heaven above or hell beneath, which are at such a distance, or of the several parts of matter which are so minute, and then, least of all, of the divine counsels. I. Concerning the founding of the earth. “I…
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