Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Behold, He spreads His light on it, and He covers the bottom of the sea.
New American Standard Bible
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
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 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.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered.
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 36:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Greatness
29 Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the crashing of His canopy? 30 Behold, He spreads His light on it, and He covers the bottom of the sea. 31 For by them He judges the people; He gives plenty of food.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so.
Exodus 14:22
And the sons of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground. And the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
Exodus 14:28
And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. There did not remain so much as one of them.
Exodus 15:4-5
Pharaoh's chariots and his army He has thrown into the sea; his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.
Job 38:8-11
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as it came from the womb?
Job 38:25
Who has cut a channel for the flood, or a way for the thunderclaps;
Job 38:34-35
Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that floods of waters may cover you?
Psalm 18:11-16
He made darkness His secret place, His pavilion around Him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psalm 104:5-9
He laid the earth on its foundations; it shall not be shaken forever.
Luke 17:24
For as the lightning which lights up, flashing from the one part under heaven, and shines to the other part under heaven, so also shall the Son of Man be in His day.