Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered.

New American Standard Bible

“Behold, He spreads His lightning about Him,
And He covers the depths of the sea.

King James Version

Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

Holman Bible

See how He spreads His lightning around Him
and covers the depths of the sea.

International Standard Version

He scatters his lightning above it, and covers the bottom of the sea.

A Conservative Version

Behold, he spreads his light around him, and he covers the bottom of the sea.

American Standard Version

Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.

Amplified


“Behold, He spreads His lightning around Him [against the dark clouds],
And He covers the depths of the sea.

Bible in Basic English

See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

Darby Translation

Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

Julia Smith Translation

Behold, he spread upon it his light, and he covered the roots of the sea.

King James 2000

Behold, he spreads his lightning upon it, and covers the depths of the sea.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Look, he scatters his lightning around him, and he covers the roots of the sea.

Modern King James verseion

Behold, He spreads His light on it, and He covers the bottom of the sea.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and cause his light to shine upon them, and to cover the bottom of the sea.

NET Bible

See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

New Heart English Bible

Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

Webster

Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

World English Bible

Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

Youngs Literal Translation

Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

upon it, and covereth
כּסה 
Kacah 
Usage: 152

the bottom
שׁרשׁ 
Sheresh 
Usage: 33

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

29 But surely none can understand the burstings of the cloud, the crashing of his pavilion! 30 Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered. 31 For, by those things, he executeth judgment on peoples, He giveth food in abundance:



Cross References

Genesis 1:9

And God said - Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together, into one place, and let the dry - ground appear. And it was so.

Exodus 14:22

Then went the sons of Israel into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, - and, the waters, to them, were a wall, on their right hand and on their left.

Exodus 14:28

thus the waters returned and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even all the forces of Pharaoh that were entering after them into the sea, - there was not left remaining among them so much as one.

Exodus 15:4-5

The chariots of Pharaoh and his train, hath he cast into the sea, - Yea, the choice of his warriors, were sunk in the Sedgy Sea.

Job 38:8-11

Or who shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;

Job 38:25

Who hath cloven - for the torrent - a channel? Or a way for the lightning of thunders;

Job 38:34-35

Canst thou lift up, to the thick cloud, thy voice, and the overflow of waters cover thee?

Psalm 18:11-16

Made darkness his hiding-place, Round about him - his pavilion, Darkness of waters, clouds of vapours.

Psalm 104:5-9

He hath fixed the earth on its foundations, It is not to be shaken, to times age-abiding and beyond.

Luke 17:24

For, just as, the lightning, flashing out of the one part under heaven, unto the other part under heaven, shineth, so, shall be, the Son of Man.

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