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Job Chapter 7 verse 12 Holy Bible

ASV Job 7:12

Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?
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BBE Job 7:12

Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?
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DARBY Job 7:12

Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?
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KJV Job 7:12

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
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WBT Job 7:12

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
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WEB Job 7:12

Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That you put a guard over me?
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YLT Job 7:12

A sea-`monster' am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - Job now begins his complaint, which is wholly addressed to God. The heads of it are: (1) that he is confined and restrained, allowed no liberty (ver. 12); (2) that he is terrified by visions in the night (vers. 13, 14); (3) that he is not "let alone" (ver. 16); . . .

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Am I a sea, or a whale . . .?--This very hard verse it seems most reasonable to explain, if we can, from Scripture itself: e.g., in Jeremiah 5:22 we read, "Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea?" The writer was probably familiar with Egypt when the Nile, which is still called the sea, was carefully watched and guarded by dykes that its overflow might not destroy the land. So Job exclaims, "Am I like the sea, or one of its monsters--like that Leviathan which Thou hast made to take his pastime therein, that Thou keepest guard over me and makest me thy prisoner continually, shutting me up on every side so fast in prison that I cannot get free?"