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The Book of Job, Chapter 38, Verse 9

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Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?
King James Version
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
American Standard Version
When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
New English Translation
when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
World English Bible
when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
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And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,
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And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
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Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place;
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That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
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It is turned as clay [to] the seal; and they stand as a garment.
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And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
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Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
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Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
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Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
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Where [is] the way [where] light dwelleth? and [as for] darkness, where [is] the place thereof,