VERSE STUDY • KJV

Job 38:9

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

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When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?

9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

10 And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,

11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place;

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