This verse is likewise by several interpreted of God, and of what is done by him in the things of nature and providence; he it is that at first shut up the sea with doors; made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling bands, in which he wrapped and bound it, as an infant, and still sets bars and doors to it, and says, hitherto shalt thou come, and no further
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Job 28:3
Job 28:3
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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