“ Who kept the sea inside its boundaries as it burst from the womb,

“海水冲出，如出胎胞，那时谁将它关闭呢？

“当海水冲出，如出母胎，谁用门将它关闭呢？

“当海水冲出，如出母胎，谁用门将它关闭呢？

“大海从母胎奔腾而出时，谁为它划定界限？

海水冲出如婴孩出母胎，那时谁用门把海水关闭呢？

海水衝出，如出胎胞，那時誰將它關閉呢？

「當海水衝出，如出母胎，誰用門將它關閉呢？

「當海水衝出，如出母胎，誰用門將它關閉呢？

「大海從母胎奔騰而出時，誰為它劃定界限？

海水沖出如嬰孩出母胎，那時誰用門把海水關閉呢？

『大海衝出，從胎裏出來時，誰早設門戶將海閉住呢？

海水洶湧、若出於胎、誰設門以閉之、

海水初生、孰堤防之、若閉其門、

海水初生、如子出胎、其時我禁遏之、猶如閉門、

“ Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

“ Who created the ocean? Who caused it to be born?

“ Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,

“ Or who enclosed the sea with doors When it went out from the womb, bursting forth;

“ Or who shut in the sea with doors, When it burst forth and issued from the womb;

Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,

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

“ Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,

“ Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

Then God said,“ Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear.” And that is what happened.

Have you no respect for me? Why don’t you tremble in my presence? I, the Lord, define the ocean’s sandy shoreline as an everlasting boundary that the waters cannot cross. The waves may toss and roar, but they can never pass the boundaries I set.

I was there when he set the limits of the seas, so they would not spread beyond their boundaries. And when he marked off the earth’s foundations,

Mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels you decreed.Then you set a firm boundary for the seas, so they would never again cover the earth.

He assigned the sea its boundaries and locked the oceans in vast reservoirs.

For I locked it behind barred gates, limiting its shores.