Teks -- Job 38:8 (NET)

38:8 “Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,

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Wesley: Job 38:8 - Doors

Who was it, that set bounds to the vast and raging ocean, and shut it up, as it were with doors within its proper place, that it might not overflow the earth? Break forth - From the womb or bowels of the earth, within which the waters were for the most part contained, and out of which they were by God's command brought forth into the channel which God had appointed for them.

JFB: Job 38:8 - doors

Floodgates; these when opened caused the flood (Gen 8:2); or else, the shores.

JFB: Job 38:8 - 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.

Clarke: Job 38:8 - Who shut up the sea with doors

Who shut up the sea with doors - Who gathered the waters together into one place, and fixed the sea its limits, so that it cannot overpass them to inundate the earth

Clarke: Job 38:8 - When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? - This is a very fine metaphor. The sea is represented as a newly born infant issuing from the womb of the void and formless chaos; and the delicate circumstance of the liquor amnii, which bursts out previously to the birth of the foetus, alluded to. The allusion to the birth of a child is carried on in the next verse.

Defender: Job 38:8 - when it brake forth

The Lord next reminds Job of the great Flood, when mighty waters "brake forth" from both the skies and the subterranean deep. This also could not be explained by uniformitarianism, but only by divine power and revelation."

TSK: Job 38:8 - who // out

who : Job 38:10; Gen 1:9; Psa 33:7, Psa 104:9; Pro 8:29; Jer 5:22

out : Job 38:29

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Poole: Job 38:8 - When it brake forth

Who was it, thou or I, that did set bounds to the vast and raging ocean, and shut it up as it were with doors within its proper place and storehouse, that it might not overflow the earth; which without God’ s powerful restraint it would do? See Psa 33:7 104:9 . This sense seems most proper, and to be confirmed by the following verses.

When it brake forth or, after it had broken forth , to wit, from the womb or bowels of the earth, within which the waters were for the most part contained, Gen 1:2 ; compare 2Pe 3:5 ; and out of which they were by God’ s command brought forth into the proper place or channel which God had appointed for them.

Haydock: Job 38:8 - Shut // Forth

Shut. Hebrew also, (Haydock) "facilitated the birth of the sea," as a midwife. (Grotius) (Calmet) ---

Forth. Septuagint, "raged." (Haydock) ---

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, ver. 10. (Calmet)

Gill: Job 38:8 - Or who shut up the sea with doors // when it brake forth out of the abyss // as if it had issued out of the womb

Or who shut up the sea with doors,.... From the earth the transition is to the sea, according to the order of the creation; and this refers not to the state and case of the sea as at the flood, of which some interpret it, but as at its first creation; and it is throughout this account represented as an infant, and here first as in embryo, shut up in the bowels of the earth, where it was when first created with it, as an infant shut up in its mother's womb, and with the doors of it; see Job 3:10; the bowels of the earth being the storehouses where God first laid up the deep waters, Psa 33:7; and when the chaos, the misshapen earth, was like a woman big with child;

when it brake forth out of the abyss, as the Targum, with force and violence, as Pharez broke out of his mother's womb; for which reason he had his name given, which signifies a breach, Gen 38:29; so it follows,

as if it had issued out of the womb; as a child out of its mother's womb; so the sea burst forth and issued out of the bowels of the earth, and covered it all around, as in Psa 104:6; and now it was that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, before they were drained off the earth; this was the first open visible production of the sea, and nay be called the birth of it; see Gen 1:2. Something like this the Heathen philosopher Archelaus had a notion of, who says ^g, the sea was shut up in hollow places, and was as it were strained through the earth.