Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Am I the sea, or a dragon, that thou wilt set 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?
Bible in Basic English
Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?
Darby Translation
Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest 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?
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 7:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Don'T Forget!
11 Also I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the straitness of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 12 Am I the sea, or a dragon, that thou wilt set a watch over me? 13 For I said, My bed shall comfort me; my couch shall lift up in my complaint;
Names
Cross References
Job 7:17
What is man that thou wilt magnify him? and that thou wilt set thy heart to him?
Job 38:6-11
Upon what were its bases impressed? or who placed its corner-stone?
Job 41:1-34
Wilt thou draw out the crocodile with a hook and with a cord wilt thou press down his tongue?
Lamentations 3:7
He walled about me and I shall not go forth: he loaded my brass.
Ezekiel 32:2-3
Son of man, lift up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, Thou wert like a young lion of the nations, and thou as a whale in the seas: and thou wilt break forth with thy rivers, and trouble the waters with thy feet, and thou wilt tread their rivers.