Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 38:8

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 38:8 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 38:8. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Job, this verse is saying that God created the sea and set boundaries for it, just like doors keep things inside. It's showing that God has power over nature and takes care of everything.

Job 38:8: Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?

Contradiction with Genesis 7:11

This verse describes the opening of the fountains of the deep for the flood, contradicting the notion of a set boundary for the sea.

Genesis 7:11: In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. [windows: or, floodgates]

Contradiction with Psalm 104:9

This verse states that the waters should not pass their boundaries again, contrary to the imagery of setting limits for the sea given in Job 38:8.

Psalm 104:9: Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 5:22

This verse mentions God setting a perpetual decree for the sea not to pass, contrasting with the idea of confining the sea with doors as mentioned in Job 38:8.

Jeremiah 5:22: Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

Contradiction with Psalm 33:7

This verse speaks of God gathering the waters of the sea as a heap, which contrasts with the containment of waters with doors as described in Job 38:8.

Psalm 33:7: He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
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