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“Who shut the doors to keep the sea in
    when it broke through ·and was born [L coming out of the womb],
when I made the clouds like a coat for the sea
    and ·wrapped [swaddled] it in dark clouds,
10 when I ·put [prescribed] ·limits [boundaries] on the sea
    and put its doors and bars in place,
11 when I said to the sea, ‘You may come this far, but no farther;
    this is where your proud waves must stop’?

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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 for it,

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

11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

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