"Or 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 brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
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?
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.
Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it broke forth from the womb,
And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.