Job 7:12 Cross References - LEB

¹² Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

¹⁷ "What is a human being that you make him great and that _⌊you fix your mind on him_⌋,*

⁶ On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, ⁷ when the morning stars were singing together and all the sons of God* shouted for joy? ⁸ "Or who shut the sea in with doors at its bursting, when it went out of the womb, ⁹ at my making the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, ¹⁰ and I prescribed my rule for it, and I set bars and doors, ¹¹ and I said, 'You shall come up to here, but* you shall not go further, and here it will set a boundary _⌊for your proud surging waves_⌋'?*

¹ * "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or* _⌊can you tie down its mouth with a cord_⌋?* ² Can you put a rope in its nose? Or* can you pierce its jawbone with a hook? ³ Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you? ⁴ Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever? ⁵ Will you play with it as with birds and put it on a leash for your girls? ⁶ Will guildsmen bargain over it? Will they divide it between tradesmen? ⁷ Can you fill its kin with harpoons or* its head with fish spears? ⁸ Lay your hands on it; think about the battle—you will not do it again! ⁹ "Look, _⌊the hope of capturing it_⌋* is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight? ¹⁰ Is it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who then is he who would stand _⌊before it_⌋?* ¹¹ Who has come to confront me, that* I should repay him? Under all the heavens, _⌊it belongs to me_⌋.* ¹² "I will not keep quiet concerning its limbs or* concerning the extent of its might and the gracefulness of its frame. ¹³ Who can strip off _⌊its outer covering_⌋?* Who can penetrate its double harness? ¹⁴ Who can open the doors of its face? Its teeth all around are fearsome. ¹⁵ Its back* has scales of shields; it is shut up closely as with a seal. ¹⁶ They are close _⌊to one another_⌋—* even* the air cannot come between them. ¹⁷ They are joined _⌊one to another_⌋;* they cling together and cannot be separated. ¹⁸ "Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes are _⌊red like dawn_⌋.* ¹⁹ Torches go from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out. ²⁰ Smoke comes from its nostrils as from a kettle boiling and burning bulrushes. ²¹ Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth. ²² "Strength abides in its neck, and dismay* dances _⌊before it_⌋.* ²³ Its flesh's folds of skin cling together; it is cast on it—it will not be moved. ²⁴ Its heart is cast as stone; yes,* it is cast as the lower millstone. ²⁵ _⌊When it raises itself_⌋,* the mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing. ²⁶ Reaching it with the sword does not avail, nor with the spear, the dart, or* the javelin. ²⁷ It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood. ²⁸ _⌊An arrow_⌋* will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it. ²⁹ Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at the short sword's rattle. ³⁰ "Its underparts are shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud like a threshing sledge. ³¹ It makes the deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes the sea like a pot of ointment. ³² Behind it, _⌊it leaves a glistening wake_⌋;* one would think that the deep has gray hair. ³³ "_⌊On the ground it has no equal_⌋*— a* creature without fear. ³⁴ It observes all the lofty; it is king _⌊over all that are proud_⌋."*

⁷ He has built a wall around me, I cannot go out; he has made my bronze fetters heavy.

² "Son of man,* raise a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and you must say to him,
'With a fierce, strong lion among nations you compared yourself, and you are like the sea monster in the seas, and you thrash about in your rivers, and you make water turbid with your feet, and you make your rivers muddy. ³ Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Now I will spread my net over you in the assembly of many peoples, and I will bring you up in my dragnet.