Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 38:8

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

Who was it, thou or I, that did set bounds to the vast and raging Ocean, and shut it up as it were with Doors within its proper place and store-house that it might not overflow the Earth; which without God's powerful restraint it would do? See Psal. 33. 7. & 104. 9. This sense seems most proper and to be confirmed by the following Verses.

Or, after it had broken forth, to it, from the womb or bowels of the Earth, within which the Waters were for the most part contained, Gen. 1. 2. Compare 2 Pet. 3. 5. and out of which they were by God's command brought forth into the proper place or channel which God had appointed for them.

Marginal references: Gen. 1. 9.