Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Am I [the] sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard 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?
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?
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 "Even I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit's anguish; I will complain in my inner self's bitterness. 12 Am I [the] sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me? 13 When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,'
Names
Cross References
Job 7:17
"What [is] a human being that you make him great and that {you fix your mind on him},
Job 38:6-11
On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,
Job 41:1-34
"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or {can you tie down its mouth with a cord}?
Lamentations 3:7
He has built a wall around me, I cannot go out; he has made my bronze fetters heavy.
Ezekiel 32:2-3
"Son of man, raise a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and you must say to him, '[With] a fierce, strong lion among nations you compared yourself, and you [are] like the sea monster in the seas, and you thrash about in your rivers, and you make water turbid with your feet, and you make your rivers muddy.