Verse 12

Am I a sea or a whalefish, that thou keepest me in warde?

Referenced Verses

• Job 7:17 : 17 What is man, that thou doest magnifie him, and that thou settest thine heart vpon him?
• Job 38:6-9 : 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof: 7 When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced: 8 Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe: 9 When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the swadeling bands thereof: 10 When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores, 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.
• Job 41:1-9 : 1 (40:20) Canst thou drawe out Liuiathan with an hooke, and with a line which thou shalt cast downe vnto his tongue? 2 (40:21) Canst thou cast an hooke into his nose? canst thou perce his iawes with an angle? 3 (40:22) Will he make many prayers vnto thee, or speake thee faire? 4 (40:23) Will hee make a couenant with thee? and wilt thou take him as a seruant for euer? 5 (40:24) Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bynd him for thy maydes? 6 (40:25) Shall the companions baket with him? shal they deuide him among the marchants? 7 (40:26) Canst thou fill the basket with his skinne? or the fishpanier with his head? 8 (40:27) Lay thine hand vpon him: remember the battel, and do no more so. 9 (40:28) Behold, his hope is in vaine: for shal not one perish euen at the sight of him? 10 (41:1) None is so fearce that dare stirre him vp. Who is he then that can stand before me? 11 (41:2) Who hath preuented mee that I shoulde make an ende? Al vnder heauen is mine. 12 (41:3) I will not keepe silence concerning his partes, nor his power nor his comely proportion. 13 (41:4) Who can discouer the face of his garmet? or who shall come to him with a double bridle? 14 (41:5) Who shall open the doores of his face? his teeth are fearefull ronnd about. 15 (41:6) The maiestie of his scales is like strog shields, and are sure sealed. 16 (41:7) One is set to another, that no winde can come betweene them. 17 (41:8) One is ioyned to another: they sticke together, that they cannot be sundered. 18 (41:9) His niesings make the light to shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. 19 (41:10) Out of his mouth go lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out. 20 (41:11) Out of his nostrels commeth out smoke, as out of a boyling pot or caldron. 21 (41:12) His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth. 22 (41:13) In his necke remayneth strength, & labour is reiected before his face. 23 (41:14) The members of his bodie are ioyned: they are strong in themselues, and cannot be mooued. 24 (41:15) His heart is as strong as a stone, & as hard as the nether milstone. 25 (41:16) The mightie are afrayd of his maiestie, and for feare they faint in themselues. 26 (41:17) When the sword doeth touch him, he will not rise vp, nor for the speare, dart nor habergeon. 27 (41:18) He esteemeth yron as strawe, and brasse as rotten wood. 28 (41:19) The archer canot make him flee: ye stones of the sling are turned into stubble vnto him: 29 (41:20) The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare. 30 (41:21) Sharpe stones are vnder him, and he spreadeth sharpe things vpon the myre. 31 (41:22) He maketh the depth to boyle like a pot, and maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment. 32 (41:23) He maketh a path to shine after him: one would thinke the depth as an hoare head. 33 (41:24) In the earth there is none like him: hee is made without feare. 34 (41:25) He beholdeth al hie things: he is a King ouer all the children of pride.
• Lam 3:7 : 7 He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy.
• Ezek 32:2-3 : 2 Sonne of man, take vp a lamentation for Pharaoh King of Egypt, and say vnto him, Thou art like a lyon of the nations and art as a dragon in the sea: thou castedst out thy riuers and troubledst the waters with thy feete, and stampedst in their riuers. 3 Thus sayth the Lord God, I will therefore spread my net ouer thee with a great multitude of people, and they shall make thee come vp into my net.