The LORD Challenges Job
Job 38:14
In 11 translations
- BSB
- The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
- KJV
- It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
- WEB
- It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
- ASV
- It is changed as clay under the seal; And all things stand forth as a garment:
- LSV
- It turns itself as clay of a seal || And they station themselves as clothed.
- YLT
- It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.
- DBY
- It is changed like the signet-clay; and [all things] stand forth as in a garment:
- DRC
- The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment:
- GNV
- It is turned as clay to facion, and all stand vp as a garment.
- JPS
- It is changed as clay under the seal; and they stand as a garment.
- LXXE
- Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- תִּ֭תְהַפֵּךְ כְּחֹ֣מֶר חוֹתָ֑ם וְ֝יִֽתְיַצְּב֗וּ כְּמ֣וֹ לְבֽוּשׁ׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἢ σὺ λαβὼν γῆν πηλὸν, ἔπλασας ζῶον, καὶ λαλητὸν αὐτὸν ἔθου ἐπὶ γῆς;
Who and where
◆ Job's Trial
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
ClayContinentsBookCondescension of GodSealsReadings, SelectBaruch, Book ofSealSymbols and SimilitudesJob, Book of
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 104:6You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
- Psalms 104:2He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,
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