Job 38:9
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
- KJV
- When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
- WEB
- when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
- ASV
- When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
- DARBY
- When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it;
- BLB
- in my setting [for] the cloud its garment, and [for] the dark cloud its swaddling band,
- ÅB
- da jeg gjorde skyer til dets klær og skodde til dets svøp
- OTB
- da jeg kledde det med skyer
og svøpte det i tett mørke, - B1930
- da jeg gjorde skyer til dets klædebon og skodde til dets svøp
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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