Job 38:14
12 In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
13 that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
15 Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
16 Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
- KJV
- It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
- WEB
- It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
- ASV
- It is changed as clay under the seal; And [all things] stand forth as a garment:
- DARBY
- It is changed like the signet-clay; and [all things] stand forth as in a garment:
- BLB
- It is turned over like clay under a seal, and they stand out like a garment.
- ÅB
- Jorden tar da form slik som leire under seglet, og tingene treder fram som en kappe,
- OTB
- Jorden tar form som leire under et segl;
dens trekk trer fram som et klesplagg. - B1930
- Jorden tar da form likesom ler under seglet, og tingene treder frem som et klædebon,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 104:6
You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
Read in contextPsalms 104:2
He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,
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