OLD TESTAMENT

Job 38:8

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“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

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Verse 8. Shut. Hebrew also, ( Bible.) “facilitated the birth of the sea,” as a midwife. Grot. Calmet.—Forth. Septuagint “raged.” Bible.—God represents the waters ready to overwhelm all when first produced out of nothing, if he had not shut them up in the abyss, like a child in a cradle, or a wild beast in its den, verse 10. Calmet.

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