Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Job 38:8
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Job38:8
8. doors--floodgates; these when opened caused the flood (Ge 8:2); or else, the shores.
womb--of chaos. The bowels of the earth. Image from childbirth (Job 38:8, 9; Eze 32:2; Mi 4:10). Ocean at its birth was wrapped in clouds as its swaddling bands.
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