Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When I made the clouds to be a covering for it, and swaddled it with the dark;
New American Standard Bible
And thick darkness its swaddling band,
King James Version
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
Holman Bible
and thick darkness its blanket,
International Standard Version
when I made clouds to be its clothes and thick darkness its swaddling blanket,
A Conservative Version
when I made clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
American Standard Version
When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
Amplified
When I made the clouds its garment
And thick darkness its swaddling band,
Bible in Basic English
When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,
Darby Translation
When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it;
Julia Smith Translation
In my making the cloud its garment, and darkness its bandage:
King James 2000
When I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
Lexham Expanded Bible
at my making [the] clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,
Modern King James verseion
When I made the clouds its robe, and darkness its navel-band,
NET Bible
when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
New Heart English Bible
when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
The Emphasized Bible
When I put a cloud as the garment thereof, and a thick cloud as the swaddling-band thereof;
Webster
When I made a cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,
World English Bible
when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
Youngs Literal Translation
In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,
Themes
Clouds » Are the garment of the sea
Darkness » Over the face of the earth
Darkness » Exhibits God's power and greatness
Darkness » Called the swaddling band of the sea
the Sea » Darkness the swaddling band of
Topics
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
8 Who shut the sea with doors, when it brake forth as a child out of his mother's womb? 9 When I made the clouds to be a covering for it, and swaddled it with the dark; 10 When I gave it my commandment, making doors and bars for it;
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Names
Cross References
Genesis 1:2
The Earth was void and empty and darkness was upon the deep, and the spirit of God moved upon the water.