Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
Job 7:12
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?
- KJV
- Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
- WEB
- Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
- ASV
- Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?
- LSV
- Am I a sea [monster], or a dragon, || That You set a watch over me?
- YLT
- A sea -[monster] am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?
- DBY
- Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?
- DRC
- Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?
- GNV
- Am I a sea or a whalefish, that thou keepest me in warde?
- JPS
- Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that Thou settest a watch over me?
- LXXE
- Am I a sea, or a serpent, that thou hast set a watch over me?
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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
- הֲֽיָם־אָ֭נִי אִם־תַּנִּ֑ין כִּֽי־תָשִׂ֖ים עָלַ֣י מִשְׁמָֽר׃
- LXX-Br
- Πότερον θάλασσα εἰμὶ ἢ δράκων, ὅτι κατέταξας ἐπʼ ἐμὲ φυλακήν;
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Cross-references most cited first
- Ezekiel 32:2–3“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet…
- Job 7:17What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
- Job 38:6–11On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone, while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I…
- Lamentations 3:7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
- Job 41:1–34“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope? Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly? Will he make a covenant…
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