Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;
New American Standard Bible
And they stand forth like a garment.
King James Version
It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
Holman Bible
its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
International Standard Version
Like clay is molded by a signet ring, the earth's hills and valleys then stand out like the colors of a garment.
A Conservative Version
It is changed as clay under the seal, and [all things] stand forth as a garment.
American Standard Version
It is changed as clay under the seal; And all things'stand forth as a garment:
Amplified
“The earth is changed like clay into which a seal is pressed;
And the things [of the earth] stand out like a [multi-colored] garment.
Darby Translation
It is changed like the signet-clay; and all things stand forth as in a garment:
Julia Smith Translation
It shall be turned as clay to the seal; and they shall stand as clothing.
King James 2000
It is turned as clay under the seal; and they stand out as a garment.
Lexham Expanded Bible
It is changed like clay [under] a seal, and they appear like a garment.
Modern King James verseion
It is turned like clay under a seal; and they stand forth like a garment.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Their tokens and weapons hast thou turned like clay, and set them up again as the changing of a garment.
NET Bible
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.
New Heart English Bible
It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.
The Emphasized Bible
It transformeth itself like the clay of a seal, so that things stand forth like one arrayed;
Webster
It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
World English Bible
It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.
Youngs Literal Translation
It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.
Interlinear
References
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Easton
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it? 14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe; 15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 104:2
You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
Psalm 104:6
Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;