en_tn_condensed/job/38/08.md

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