Job 7:12


“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,
That You set a guard over me?

Job 7:17


“What is man that You [should] magnify him [and think him important]?
And that You are concerned about him?

Job 38:6-11


“On what were its foundations fastened?
Or who laid its cornerstone,

Job 41:1-34

Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?

Lamentations 3:7


He walled me in so that I cannot get out;
He has weighted down my chain.

Ezekiel 32:2-3

“Son of man, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,

‘You have compared yourself to a young lion among the nations,
But you are like a monster in the seas;
You burst into your rivers
And disturbed and muddied the waters with your feet
And fouled their rivers [the source of their prosperity].’”

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

General references

Bible References

I a sea

Job 7:17

“What is man that You [should] magnify him [and think him important]?
And that You are concerned about him?
Job 38:6

“On what were its foundations fastened?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
Lamentations 3:7

He walled me in so that I cannot get out;
He has weighted down my chain.

General references

Job 40:18

“His bones are tubes of bronze;
His limbs are like bars of iron.