Job 38:9
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New International Version (©2011)
when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,

New Living Translation (©2007)
and as I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it in thick darkness?

English Standard Version (©2001)
when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When I made a cloud its garment And thick darkness its swaddling band,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

International Standard Version (©2012)
when I made clouds to be its clothes and thick darkness its swaddling blanket,

NET Bible (©2006)
when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
when I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it up in dark clouds,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
When I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

American King James Version
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling cloth for it,

American Standard Version
When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

Douay-Rheims Bible
when I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?

Darby Bible Translation
When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it;

English Revised Version
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

Webster's Bible Translation
When I made a cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

World English Bible
when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

Young's Literal Translation
In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

38:4-11 For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, even concerning the earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God's work, so we need not fear concerning it. The works of his providence, as well as the work of creation, never can be broken; and the work of redemption is no less firm, of which Christ himself is both the Foundation and the Corner-stone. The church stands as firm as the earth.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 9. - When I made the cloud the garment thereof. The account of creation here given is certainly not drawn wholly from Genesis It is to be viewed as a second, independent, account of the occurrences, in fuller detail, but vaguer, by reason of the poetical phraseology. And thick darkness a swaddllng-band for it. The infant sea, just come from the womb (ver. 8), is represented as clothed with a cloud, and swaddled in thick darkness, to mark its complete subjection to its Creator from the first.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

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God Challenges Job
…8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling cloth for it, 10And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, …

Genesis 1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Job 38:8 "Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
Job 38:10 when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,
Proverbs 30:4 Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Whose hands have gathered up the wind? Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is the name of his son? Surely you know!