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Job 7

Job 7:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Am I a sea
yam (Hebrew #3220)
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV usage: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Pronounce: yawm
Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar
, or a whale
tanniyn (Hebrew #8577)
intensive from the same as 8565; a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal
KJV usage: dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.
Pronounce: tan-neen'
Origin: or tanniym (Ezek. 29:3) {tan-neem'}
, that thou settest
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
a watch
mishmar (Hebrew #4929)
a guard (the man, the post or the prison); a deposit (fig.); also (as observed) a usage (abstr.), or an example (concr.)
KJV usage: diligence, guard, office, prison, ward, watch.
Pronounce: mish-mawr'
Origin: from 8104
over me?

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Ministry on This Verse

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I a sea.
Job 7:17• 17What is man that thou magnifiest him,{HR}And that thou settest thy mind on him, (Job 7:17)
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Job 38:6‑11• 6Whereon are its sockets sunken,{HR}Or who laid down its corner-stone,
 7When the morning stars sang together,{HR}And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
 8And [who] shut up the sea with doors,{HR}When it burst forth — came out of the womb,
 9When I made the cloud its garment,{HR}And thick darkness its swaddling-band,
 10And broke for it my law, and set bars and doors,
 11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther,{HR}And here let one set against the pride of thy waves? (Job 38:6‑11)
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Lam. 3:7• 7He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.{HR} (Lam. 3:7)
a whale.
Job 41:1‑34• 1Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle,{HR}Or, with a cord thou lettest down, his tongue?
 2Dost thou put a rush in his nose,{HR}Or bore his jaw with a thorn?
 3Will he multiply supplications to thee?{HR}Will he speak to thee tender things?
 4Will he make a covenant with thee?{HR}Wilt thou take him [for] ever as a slave?
 5Wilt thou sport with him as a bird, and bind him for thy girls?
 6Let partners bargain for him — divide him among traders!
 7Dost thou fill his skin with pikes, or his head with fish-spears?
 8Put thine hand on him — remember the battle —{HR}Thou wilt not do it again:
 9Behold, his hope proveth false.{HR}Even at the sight of him is not [one] cast down?
 10None is so fierce as to provoke him.{HR}And who [is] he that maketh a stand before me?
 11Who first gave to me, and I must repay?{HR}Under the whole heaven it [is] mine.
 12I will not be silent about his parts,{HR}And the matter of his powers, and the beauty of his structure.
 13Who hath uncovered the face of his garment?{HR}Into his double jaws who entereth in?
 14The doors of his face, who hath opened?{HR}Round about his teeth [is] terror;
 15A pride [are] the concave shields, shut up [as] a close seal;
 16One to another they join, and air entereth not between them;
 17One to another they adhere, they hold together, and separate not.
 18His sneezing flasheth forth light,{HR}And his eyes [are] as eyelids of the dawn.
 19Out of his mouth proceed torches, sparks of fire escape.
 20Out of his nostrils issue the smoke,{HR}As out of a seething pot and caldron.
 21His breath kindleth coals,{HR}And a flame cometh out from his mouth.
 22In his neck strength lodgeth, and before him danceth terror.
 23The flakes of his flesh are fitted close together;{HR}They are fixed fast on him, immovable.
 24His heart [is] firm as a stone, as a nether [millstone].
 25At his rising up the mighty tremble;{HR}From terror they miss their mark.
 26The sword of his overtaker doth not hold, spear, mace, nor lance;
 27He reckoneth iron as straw, copper as rotten wood;
 28The bolt (child) of the bow causeth him not to flee;{HR}Sling-stones are changed into stubble for him;
 29Clubs are reckoned as stubble;{HR}He laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.
 30His under parts [are] the sharpest of shards;{HR}He spreadeth a threshing-roller on the mire.
 31He maketh the deep boil as a pot,{HR}He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment;
 32After him he maketh the path to shine —{HR}One would think the deep hoary.
 33There is not on the dust dominion over him,{HR}Who is made to be without dread;
 34He looketh on all that is high,{HR}He [is] king over all the sons of pride. (Job 41:1‑34)
• God his enemy (vers. 12-19). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?

W. Kelly Translation

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Am I a sea, or a monster,{HR}That thou settest guard over me?