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Job 7:12

Job chapter 7 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

Context

v.11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

v.12This passage

v.13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;

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.