King James Version

Job 38:8

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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וַיָּ֣סֶךְvayasekhand coverסָכַךְconjunction, verb, hiphil, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “and cover”, the next action in the storyH5526properly, to entwine as ascreen; by implication, to fence in, cover over, (figuratively) protectcover, defence, defend, hedge in, join together, set, shut up.בִּדְלָתַ֣יִםbidlatayimin doorדֶּלֶתpreposition, noun, common, feminine, dual, absolute — “in door”, the ordinary formH1817something swinging, i.e. the valve of adoordoor (two-leaved), gate, leaf, lid. (Psalm 141:3).יָ֑םyamseaיָםnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “sea”, the ordinary formH3220a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the southsea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).בְּ֝גִיח֗וֹbegichvoin break forthגִּיחַpreposition, verb, qal, infinitive construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “in break forth”, the to-form of the verbH1518to gush forth (as water), generally to issuebreak forth, labor to bring forth, come forth, draw up, take out.מֵרֶ֥חֶםmerechemfrom wombרֶחֶםpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “from womb”, the ordinary formH7358the wombmatrix, womb.יֵצֵֽאyetsebring forthיָצָאverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “bring forth”, an unfinished actionH3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.[idiom] after, appear, [idiom] assuredly, bear out, [idiom] begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), [phrase] be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail…

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

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

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

Young’s Literal Translation

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

World English Bible

“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

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

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out of its mother's womb.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἔφραξα δὲ θάλασσαν πύλαις, ὅτε ἐμαίμασσεν ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐγῆς ἐκπορευομένη·