job 38:8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

job 38:8 "Or [who] enclosed the sea with doors, When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;

8. doors--floodgates; these when opened caused the flood (Ge 8:2); or else, the shores.
womb--of chaos. The bowels of the earth. Image from childbirth (Job 38:8, 9; Eze 32:2; Mic 4:10). Ocean at its birth was wrapped in clouds as its swaddling bands.

job 38:8 "Or [who] enclosed the sea with doors, When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;

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