Job 38:8
Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quis conclusit ostiis mare, quando erumpebat quasi de vulva procedens ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔφραξα δὲ θάλασσαν πύλαις, ὅτε ἐμαίμασσεν ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐτὴ ἐκπορευομένη·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּ֣סֶךְ בִּדְלָתַ֣יִם יָ֑ם בְּ֝גִיח֗וֹ מֵרֶ֥חֶם יֵצֵֽא
Haydock's commentary
Shut. Hebrew also, (Haydock) "facilitated the birth of the sea," as a midwife. (Grotius) (Calmet)
Forth. Septuagint, "raged." (Haydock)
God represents the waters ready to overwhelm all when first produced out of nothing, if he had not shut them up in the abyss, like a child in a cradle, or a wild beast in its den, ver. 10. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.