Job 38:9
Good News Translation
It was I who covered the sea with clouds and wrapped it in darkness.

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

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

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

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

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When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?

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Genesis 1:2 And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.

Context
God Challenges Job
8Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb: 9When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?10I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:…
Cross References
Genesis 1:2
And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.

Job 38:8
Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:

Job 38:10
I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:

Proverbs 30:4
Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? who hath held the wind in his hands? who hath bound up the waters together as in a garment? who hath raised up all the borders of the earth? what is his name, and what is the name of his son, if thou knowest?

Job 38:8
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