Job 38:8
Hebrew Text— Job 38:8“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
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For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,
God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH your God,
The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.
He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.
Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’
Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you.
With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.
He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling.
to him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
As when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the water to boil; Make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”
God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the sky from above.
About Joseph he said, “His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath,
Israel dwells in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap.”
You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away, The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.
Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
By the breath of God, ice is given, and the width of the waters is frozen.
Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.
He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.
By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.
Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.
They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
“I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; “for he is the living God, and steadfast forever. His kingdom is that which will not be destroyed. His dominion will be even to the end.
They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:
“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.
“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.
It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.
He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”
He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.
On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.
But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.
If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall on you?
“Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?
Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
For Yahweh is great, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.
He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:
Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
And, “You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.