Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Behind him he makes a shining wake;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired [with foam].
New American Standard Bible
One would think the deep to be gray-haired.
King James Version
He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
Holman Bible
one would think the deep had gray hair!
International Standard Version
The sea is luminescent behind him; his wake turns the sea white, like those with gray hair.
A Conservative Version
He makes a path to shine after him. [A man] would think the deep to be hoary.
American Standard Version
He maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary.
Bible in Basic English
After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.
Darby Translation
He maketh the path to shine after him: one would think the deep to be hoary.
Julia Smith Translation
He will cause a beaten path to shine after him: the deep will be reckoned to be hoary.
King James 2000
He leaves a path shining after him; one would think the deep to have white hair.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Behind it, {it leaves a glistening wake}; one would think [that] the deep [has] gray hair.
Modern King James verseion
He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be gray-headed.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He maketh the path to be seen after him, and the deep is his walking place.
NET Bible
It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.
New Heart English Bible
He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
The Emphasized Bible
After him, he lighteth up a path, one might think the resounding deep to be hoary!
Webster
He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
World English Bible
He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
Youngs Literal Translation
After him he causeth a path to shine, One thinketh the deep to be hoary.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 41:32
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Lord Continues: Can You Conquer Leviathan, Job?
31
“He makes the deep water boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a [foaming] pot of ointment.
“Behind him he makes a shining wake;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired [with foam].
“Upon earth there is nothing like him—no equal exists,
A creature made without fear.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 1:2
The earth was
Genesis 1:15
and let them be useful as lights in the expanse of the heavens to provide light on the earth”; and it was so, [just as He commanded].
Genesis 15:15
As for you, you shall [die and] go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 25:8
Then Abraham breathed his last and he died at a good old age, an old man who was satisfied [with life]; and he
Genesis 42:38
But Jacob said, “My son shall not go down [to Egypt] with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left [of Rachel’s children]. If any harm or accident should happen to him on the journey you are taking, then you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol (the place of the dead) in sorrow.”
Job 28:14
“The deep says, ‘It is not in me’;
And the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’
Job 38:16
“Have you entered and explored the springs of the sea
Or [have you] walked in the recesses of the deep?
Job 38:30
“Water becomes like stone [and hides itself],
And the surface of the deep is frozen and imprisoned.
Proverbs 16:31
The silver-haired head is a crown of splendor and glory;
It is found in the way of righteousness.
Proverbs 20:29
The glory of young men is their [physical] strength,
And the honor of aged men is their gray head [representing wisdom and experience].