Job 38:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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

Doors - flood-gates; these when opened caused the flood (Genesis 7:11); or else the shores.

Womb - of chaos. The bowels of the earth. Image from child-birth (Job 38:8-9). Ocean at its birth was wrapped in clouds as its swaddling bands (Ezekiel 32:2; Micah 4:10).

Job 38:8

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