Job 38:9 Meaning and Explanation
“When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,”
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Read Full Chapter →God describes clothing the newborn sea with clouds and wrapping it in darkness as a baby is wrapped in swaddling bands.
What Does Job 38:9 Mean?
The tender image of the sea as a newborn continues. God clothed it with cloud as with a garment and wrapped it in thick darkness as a mother binds an infant in swaddling cloths. The mighty ocean is, in God's hands, a child he dresses and tends.
There is unexpected gentleness in this picture of power. The God who governs the deep does so with the care of a parent for a fragile newborn. If he clothes the sea and the storm-clouds, he will surely clothe and keep his children. The same intimacy with which God wrapped the sea is the intimacy with which he watches over each life he has made.
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What does Job 38:9 mean?
God describes clothing the newborn sea with clouds and wrapping it in darkness as a baby is wrapped in swaddling bands.