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Job 38:9 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband "
Job 38:9
Verse in Context
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When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
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Job 38:1
"Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,"
Job 38:2
"Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?"
Job 38:3
"Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer"
Job 38:4
"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding."
Job 38:5
"Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line"
Job 38:6
"Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone"
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