Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?
New American Standard Bible
That You set a guard over me?
King James Version
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
Holman Bible
that You keep me under guard?
International Standard Version
Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you keep watching me?
A Conservative Version
Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou set a watch over me?
American Standard Version
Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?
Amplified
“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,
That You set a guard over me?
Darby Translation
Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?
Julia Smith Translation
Am I the sea, or a dragon, that thou wilt set a watch over me?
King James 2000
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you set a watch over me?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Am I [the] sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?
Modern King James verseion
Am I like the sea, or a whale, that You set a watch over me?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Am I a sea, or a whalefish, that thou keepest me so in prison?
NET Bible
Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?
New Heart English Bible
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
The Emphasized Bible
Am, I, a sea, or a sea-monster, - That thou shouldst set over me a watch?
Webster
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
World English Bible
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
Youngs Literal Translation
A sea -monster am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 7:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Don'T Forget!
11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry. 12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me? 13 When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;
Names
Cross References
Job 7:17
What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,
Job 38:6-11
On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,
Job 41:1-34
Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?
Lamentations 3:7
He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
Ezekiel 32:2-3
Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.