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

New Living Translation
and as I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it in thick darkness?

English Standard Version
when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,

Berean Standard Bible
when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

King James Bible
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

New King James Version
When I made the clouds its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling band;

New American Standard Bible
When I made a cloud its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling bands,

NASB 1995
When I made a cloud its garment And thick darkness its swaddling band,

NASB 1977
When I made a cloud its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

Legacy Standard Bible
When I made a cloud its garment And dense gloom its swaddling band,

Amplified Bible
When I made the clouds its garment And thick darkness its swaddling band,

Christian Standard Bible
when I made the clouds its garment and total darkness its blanket,

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
When he set the work of the clouds her clothing, and thick darkness its swaddling band

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.

Contemporary English Version
and wrapped it in blankets of thickest fog.

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

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

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

Good News Translation
It was I who covered the sea with clouds and wrapped it in darkness.

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

Literal Standard Version
In My making a cloud its clothing, | And thick darkness its swaddling band,

Majority Standard Bible
when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

New American Bible
When I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling bands?

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

New Revised Standard Version
when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

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

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,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
God Challenges Job
8Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, 9when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket, 10when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,…

Cross References
Genesis 1:2
Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Job 38:8
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Job 38:10
when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

Proverbs 30:4
Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His 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!


Treasury of Scripture

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

thick

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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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.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
when I made
בְּשׂוּמִ֣י (bə·śū·mî)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

the clouds
עָנָ֣ן (‘ā·nān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6051: A cloud, the nimbus, thunder-cloud

its garment
לְבֻשׁ֑וֹ (lə·ḇu·šōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3830: A garment, clothing, raiment

and thick darkness
וַ֝עֲרָפֶ֗ל (wa·‘ă·rā·p̄el)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6205: Cloud, heavy cloud

its blanket,
חֲתֻלָּתֽוֹ׃ (ḥă·ṯul·lā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2854: A swathing cloth


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