Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Am I a sea, or a whalefish, that thou keepest me so in prison?

New American Standard Bible

“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,
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

Am I the sea or a sea monster,
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?

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?

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Am I a sea
ים 
Yam 
Usage: 396

or a whale
תּנּים תּנּין 
Tanniyn 
Usage: 23

that thou settest
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

a watch
משׁמר 
Mishmar 
Usage: 22

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Don'T Forget!

11 Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speak in the trouble of my spirit; in that bitterness of my mind will I talk. 12 Am I a sea, or a whalefish, that thou keepest me so in prison? 13 When I think, 'My bed shall comfort me; I shall have some refreshing by talking to myself upon my couch,'



Cross References

Job 7:17

"What is man, that thou dost magnify him? And that thou settest thy heart upon him?

Job 38:6-11

Where upon stand the pillars of it? Or, who laid the corner stone?

Job 41:1-34

Darest thou draw out Leviathan with an angle, or bind his tongue with a snare?

Lamentations 3:7

{Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me.

Ezekiel 32:2-3

"Thou son of man, take up a lamentation upon Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and say unto him, 'Thou art reputed as a Lion of the Heathen, and as a whalefish in the sea. Thou castest thy waters about thee, thou troublest the waters with thy feet, and stampest in their floods.

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