Job 7:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

Job 7:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 3:7
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Job 38:6-11
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; …
Job 7:17
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Ezekiel 32:2-3
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. …
Job 41:1-34
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-16)

Job, observing perhaps that his friends, though they would not interrupt him in his discourse, yet began to grow weary, and not to heed much what he said, here turns to God, and speaks to him. If men will not hear us, God will; if men cannot help us, he can; for his arm is not shortened, neither is his ear heavy. Yet we must not go to school to Job here to learn how to speak to God; for, it must b…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. Why dost thou deny me the comfort of care-assuaging sleep? Why scarest thou me with frightful dreams? Am I a sea--regarded in Old Testament poetry as a violent rebel against God, the Lord of nature, who therefore curbs his violence (Jr 5:22). or a whale--or some other sea monster (Is 27:1), that Thou needest thus to watch and curb me? The Egyptians watched the crocodile most carefully to preve…