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Job 38:9
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when I made the clouds its garmentand total darkness its blanket,
When I made clouds the garment of it, Thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,
when I made the clouds like a coat for the sea and wrapped it in dark clouds,
when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
When I made the clouds its garment And thick darkness its swaddling band,
When I made a cloud its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling bands,
When I made clouds the garment of it, Thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the swadeling bands thereof:
When I made a cloud its garmentAnd dense gloom its swaddling band,
when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
and wrapped it in blankets of thickest fog.
when I made the clouds its blanket and dense fog its swaddling cloth,
When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it;
Who covered it with clouds and wrapped it in darkness?
When I made the cloud the garment of the earth, and thick darkness a swaddling hand for it,
It was I who covered the sea with clouds and wrapped it in darkness.
at my making the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,
When I made the clouds to clothe it, and darkness its navel-band;
When I made the cloudes to be a coueringe for it, and swedled it with ye darcke?
When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thicke darknesse a swadling band for it,
When I made the cloudes [to be] a covering for it, and swadled it with the darke:
And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
Whanne Y settide a cloude the hilyng therof, and Y wlappide it with derknesse, as with clothis of yong childhed.
When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
When I made a cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,
When I made the clouds its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling band;
and as I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it in thick darkness?
I made clouds its clothing, and put much darkness around it.
When I put a cloud as the garment thereof, and a thick cloud as the swaddling-band thereof;
When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?
when I made clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,
When I made a cloud its garment And thick darkness its swaddling band,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thick: Genesis 1:2
Reciprocal: Job 26:8 - bindeth up Job 36:29 - the spreadings
Cross-References
and the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed to the name of the deceased brother, so that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.
But Naomi said, "Turn back, my daughters, why will you go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb that they may become your husbands?
I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to maintain the dead man's name on his inheritance, in order that the name of the dead may not be cut off from his kindred and from the gate of his native place; today you are witnesses."
Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.
But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be boastful and false to the truth.
For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.
Or do you suppose that it is for nothing that the scripture says, "God yearns jealously for the spirit that he has made to dwell in us"?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
When I made the cloud the garment thereof,.... For this newborn babe, the sea;
and thick darkness a swaddling band for it; which was the case of the sea when it burst out of the bowels of the earth and covered it, for then darkness was upon the face of the deep, a dark, foggy, misty air, Genesis 1:2; and this was before its separation from the land, and in this order it stands in this account; though since, clouds, fogs, and mists, which rise out of the sea, are as garments to it, and cover it at times, and the surrounding atmosphere, as it presses the whole terraqueous globe, and keeps the parts of the earth together, so the waters of the sea from spilling out; and these are the garments and the swaddling bands with which the hands and arms of this big and boisterous creature are wreathed; it is said of the infant in Ezekiel 16:4 that it was neither "salted nor swaddled at all"; but both may be said of the sea; that it is salted is sufficiently known, and that it is swaddled is here affirmed; but who except the Lord Almighty could do this? and who has managed, and still does and can manage, this unruly creature, as easily as a nurse can turn about and swaddle a newborn babe upon her lap.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
When I made the cloud the garment thereof - Referring to the garment in which the new-born infant is wrapped up. This image is one of great beauty. It is that of the vast ocean just coming into being, with a cloud resting upon it and covering it. Thick darkness envelopes it, and it is swathed in mists; compare Genesis 1:2,” And darkness was upon the face of the deep.” The time here referred to is that before the light of the sun arose upon the earth, before the dry land appeared, and before annuals and people had been formed. Then the new-born ocean lay carefully enveloped in clouds and darkness under the guardian care of God. The dark night rested upon it, and the mists hovered over it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 38:9. When I make the cloud the garment — Alluding to the cloth in which the new-born infant is first received. The cloud was the same to the newly raised vapour, as the above recipient to the new-born child.
And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it — Here is also an allusion to the first dressings of the new-born child: it is swathed in order to support the body, too tender to bear even careful handling without some medium between the hand of the nurse and the flesh of the child. "The image," says Mr. Good, "is exquisitely maintained: the new-born ocean is represented as issuing from the womb of chaos; and its dress is that of the new-born infant."
There is here an allusion also to the creation, as described in Genesis 1:1-2. Darkness is there said to be on the face of the DEEP. Here it is said, the thick darkness was a swaddlingband for the new-born SEA.
