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Job 38:9

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38:9when I made16 the storm clouds its garment,

and thick darkness its swaddling band,17

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Footnotes

  1. 16 The temporal clause here uses the infinitive from שִׂים (sim, “to place; to put; to make”). It underscores the sovereign placing of things.
  2. 17 This noun is found only here. The verb is in Ezek 16:4, and a related noun is in Ezek 30:21.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

when I made clouds its garment

and thick darkness its swaddling band,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

when I made the clouds its garment

and wrapped it in thick darkness,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

when I made the clouds its garment

and total darkness its blanket,

NLTNew Living Translation

and as I clothed it with clouds

and wrapped it in thick darkness?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

at my making the clouds its garment

and thick darkness its swaddling band,

KJV 1900King James Version

When I made the cloud the garment thereof,

And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,