⁸ Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

²² Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which 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?

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

²⁹ When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

⁸ They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

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

⁷ He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

¹⁰ And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,