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

◄ Job 38:9 ►

Parallel Verses

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

English Standard Version
when I made 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 band,

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

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

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

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;

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

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. doors—floodgates; these when opened caused the flood (Ge 8:2); or else, the shores.

womb—of chaos. The bowels of the earth. Image from childbirth (Job 38:8, 9; Eze 32:2; Mic 4:10). Ocean at its birth was wrapped in clouds as its swaddling bands.