Job 36:30

In 11 translations

BSB

See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.

KJV

Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.bottom: Heb. roots

WEB

Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

ASV

Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.

LSV

Behold, He has spread His light over it, || And He has covered the roots of the sea,

YLT

Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,

DBY

Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

DRC

And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the ends of the sea.

GNV

Beholde, he spreadeth his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.

JPS

Behold, He spreadeth His light upon it; and He covereth the depths of the sea.

LXXE

behold he will stretch his bow against him, and he covers the bottom of the sea.

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WLC

הֵן־פָּרַ֣שׂ עָלָ֣יו אוֹר֑וֹ וְשָׁרְשֵׁ֖י הַיָּ֣ם כִּסָּֽה׃

LXX-Br

ἰδοὺ ἐκτενεῖ ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ἠδὼ, καὶ ῥιζώματα τῆς θαλάσσης ἐκάλυψεν.

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• Exodus 14:22and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
• Exodus 15:4–5Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea. The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.
• Job 38:8–11Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket, when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors, and I declared:…
• Psalms 104:5–9He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved. You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—…
• Job 38:25Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
• Job 38:34–35Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you? Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
• Genesis 1:9And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.
• Psalms 18:11–16He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him. From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire. The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High…
• Exodus 14:28The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
• Luke 17:24For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.

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