Job 38:8
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8 “Or who shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb,(A)
Jeremiah 5:22
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22 Do you not fear me? says the Lord;
Do you not tremble before me?
I placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass;
though the waves toss, they cannot prevail;
though they roar, they cannot pass over it.(A)
Genesis 1:9
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9 And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.(A)
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Proverbs 8:29
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29 when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,(A)
Psalm 104:8-9
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8 They rose up to the mountains, ran down to the valleys,
to the place that you appointed for them.(A)
9 You set a boundary that they may not pass,
so that they might not again cover the earth.(B)
Psalm 33:7
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7 He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle;
he put the deeps in storehouses.
Job 38:10
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10 and prescribed bounds for it,
and set bars and doors,(A)
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