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The LORD Challenges Job

Job 38:30

In 11 translations

BSB
when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
KJV
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.is…: Heb. is taken
WEB
The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
ASV
The waters hide themselves and become like stone, And the face of the deep is frozen.
LSV
Waters are hidden as a stone, || And the face of the deep is captured.
YLT
As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.
DBY
When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together.
DRC
The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.
GNV
The waters are hid as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frosen.
JPS
The waters are congealed like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
LXXE
which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?

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Original-language editions

WLC
כָּ֭אֶבֶן מַ֣יִם יִתְחַבָּ֑אוּ וּפְנֵ֥י תְ֝ה֗וֹם יִתְלַכָּֽדוּ׃
LXX-Br
ἣ καταβαίνει ὥσπερ ὕδωρ ῥέον; πρόσωπον ἀσεβοῦς τίς ἔπτηξε;

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  • Job 37:10By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.

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