Job 38:8 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

English ASV

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

English Amplified

Or who shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth and issued out of the womb?--

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Or who shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth and issued out of the womb?–

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?

English EASY 2024

When the sea poured out of the ground, I decided where its borders should be. I kept the water in its right place.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

"Who closed the flood gates as the sea gushed from the womb?

"Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Who closed the gates to hold back the sea when it burst from the womb of the earth?

English God's Word - GW 1995

"Who shut the sea behind gates when it burst through and came out of the womb,

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

“Or who enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb,

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

“Or who shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth and went out of the womb?

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"Or who enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

And who shut within doors the sea, when it burst forth from the womb;

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

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

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

"Who created the ocean? Who caused it to be born?

English NIV

"Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

English NKJ 1982

“Or who shut in the sea with doors, When it burst forth and issued from the womb;

English NLT

"Who defined the boundaries of the sea as it burst from the womb,

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

"Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb?--

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

“Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst forth from the womb;

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

“Who decreed the boundaries of the seas when they gushed from the depths?

English Tyndale 1537

Who shut the sea with doors, when it brake forth as a child out of his mother's womb?

Job 38:8 — Compare Translations