◄ Job 7:12 ►
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Good News Translation
Why do you keep me under guard? Do you think I am a sea monster?

New Revised Standard Version
Am I the Sea, or the Dragon, that you set a guard over me?

Contemporary English Version
Am I the sea or a sea monster? Is that why you imprison me?

New American Bible
Am I the Sea, or the dragon, that you place a watch over me?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?

I a sea.

Job 7:17 What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?

Job 38:6-11 Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof, . . .

Lamentations 3:7 Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.

a whale.

Job 41:1-34 Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord? . . .

Context
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
…11Wherefore, I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul. 12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?13If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved, speaking with myself on my couch:…
Cross References
Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao the king of Egypt, and say to him: Thou art like the lion of the nations, and the dragon that is in the sea: and thou didst push with the horn in thy rivers, and didst trouble the waters with thy feet, and didst trample upon their streams.

Ezekiel 32:3
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: I will spread out my net over thee with the multitude of many people, and I will draw thee up in my net.

Job 7:11
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