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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