Job 7:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:17 : 17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,
  • Job 38:6-9 : 6 On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone, 7 When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy? 8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place; 9 When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it, 10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors; 11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
  • Job 41:1-9 : 1 He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me? 2 Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven! 3 I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame. 4 Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron? 5 Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth. 6 His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp. 7 One is so near to the other that no air may come between them. 8 They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted. 9 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn. 10 Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up. 11 Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire. 12 His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. 13 Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him. 14 The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved. 15 His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone. 16 When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear. 17 The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron. 18 Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood. 19 The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems. 20 A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear. 21 Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth. 22 The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel. 23 After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white. 24 On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear. 25 Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.
  • Lam 3:7 : 7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
  • Ezek 32:2-3 : 2 Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty. 3 This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net.

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  • Job 7:17-21
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    18 And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?

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    20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

    21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

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  • Jonah 2:3-5
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    13 I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

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    3 So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

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  • Job 10:6-7
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    7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

  • Job 10:16-18
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    17 That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

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    16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

  • Job 40:8
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    13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

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