Matthew Poole Commentary - Job 38:8 - 38:8

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Job 38:8 - 38:8


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Who was it, thou or I, that did set bounds to the vast and raging ocean, and shut it up as it were with doors within its proper place and storehouse, that it might not overflow the earth; which without God’s powerful restraint it would do? See Psa_33:7 104:9. This sense seems most proper, and to be confirmed by the following verses.



When it brake forth, or, after it had broken forth, to wit, from the womb or bowels of the earth, within which the waters were for the most part contained, Gen_1:2; compare 2Pe_3:5; and out of which they were by God’s command brought forth into the proper place or channel which God had appointed for them.