Parallel Verses

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?

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

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 restrain my mouth;
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit,
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 “Am I the sea, or the sea monster,
That You set a guard over me?
13 “If I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’

Cross References

Job 7:17

What is man that You magnify him,
And that You are concerned about 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 press down his tongue with a cord?

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me in so that I cannot go out;
He has made my chain heavy.

Ezekiel 32:2-3

“Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,
‘You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations,
Yet you are like the monster in the seas;
And you burst forth in your rivers
And muddied the waters with your feet
And fouled their rivers.’”

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