Job 7:12
What does Job 7:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 7:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862A sea-<FI> monster<Fi> am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 7:17
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,
- Job 38:6
Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,
- Job 41:1
Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?
- Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou wast likened unto a young lion of the nations: yet art thou as a monster in the seas; and thou didst break forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
- Lamentations 3:7
He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
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