⁸ Or `who' shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, `as if' it had issued out of the womb;

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

²² Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.

²⁹ When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;

⁷ He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.

⁸ (The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.

⁹ Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.

¹⁰ And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,