Yahweh continues challenge to Job.

## Who shut up the sea ##

Yahweh uses this question to emphasize that he made the sea. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

## shut up the sea with doors ##

Yahweh compares the way that he prevented the sea from covering all of the earth to holding it back with doors. AT: "prevented the water from flooding over the land." (UDB) (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## as if it had come out of the womb ##

Yahweh compares his creation of the sea like a birth. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])

## its clothing ##

"as clothes for the sea"

## thick darkness ##

"very dark clouds"

## and thick darkness its swaddling bands ##

"and wrapped it with dark clouds like swaddling bands (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])

## swaddling bands ##

very long pieces of cloth that people use to wrap a baby in after it is born