Job 38:8
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Cross-references
Job 38:10 continues the same image: God sets bars and doors for the sea, reinforcing the theme of divine control over creation.
In Job 26:10, God inscribes a circle on the waters as a boundary — a direct parallel to shutting in the sea with doors.
Psalm 33:7 echoes the same imagery: God gathers the sea as a heap and stores the deep, reinforcing His sovereignty over the waters.
Psalm 104:9 explicitly states God set a boundary for the waters so they cannot cover the earth — a direct parallel to Job 38:8's shutting the sea.
Proverbs 8:29 describes God giving the sea its decree and setting boundaries — a clear parallel to Job 38:8's imagery of shutting the sea.
Jeremiah 5:22 explicitly mentions God placing sand as the sea's bound — a direct parallel to Job 38:8's shutting the sea with doors.
In Psalm 24:2, God founded the earth on the seas — a creation image of divine control over waters, paralleling the sea's confinement.
In Psalm 29:10, God sits enthroned over the flood — a parallel image of sovereign rule over waters.
In Psalm 65:7, God stills the roaring seas — a direct parallel to His power to shut in the sea.
In Psalm 89:9, God rules the raging sea and stills its waves — same theme of divine control over the sea.
In Matthew 8:26, Jesus rebukes the wind and sea, demonstrating the same divine authority over the sea that God claims in Job.
Luke 8:25 records the same calming of the storm, showing Jesus' authority over the sea as a direct parallel to God's power in Job.
Genesis 1:9 describes God gathering the waters to form dry land — a parallel act of divine authority over the seas.
Exodus 14:29 shows God holding back the Red Sea as walls — a different but related demonstration of divine control over waters.
Genesis 7:11 describes the flood when God opened the fountains of the deep — the opposite of shutting the sea in Job 38:8.
Proverbs 3:20 describes the deeps breaking open by God's knowledge — complementing the shutting in of the sea here, both showing God's control over waters.