King James Version

Job 38:9

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

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בְּשׂוּמִ֣יbesumiin putשׂוּםpreposition, verb, qal, infinitive construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “in put”, the to-form of the verbH7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)[idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase]…עָנָ֣ןanancloudעָנָןnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “cloud”, the ordinary formH6051a cloud (as covering the sky), i.e. the nimbus or thunder-cloudcloud(-y).לְבֻשׁ֑וֹlevushvogarmentלְבוּשׁnoun, common, masculine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “garment”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH3830a garment (literally or figuratively); by implication (euphemistically) a wifeapparel, clothed with, clothing, garment, raiment, vestment, vesture.וַ֝עֲרָפֶ֗לvaarafeland darkעֲרָפֶלconjunction, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “and dark”, the ordinary formH6205gloom (as of a lowering sky)(gross, thick) dark (cloud, -ness).חֲתֻלָּתֽוֹchatulatvoswaddling bandחֲתֻלָּהnoun, common, feminine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “swaddling band”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH2854a swathing cloth (figuratively)swaddling band.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

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

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

Young’s Literal Translation

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

World English Bible

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

Darby Translation

When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it;

Douay-Rheims

When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

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

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἐθέμην δὲ αὐτῇ νέφος ἀμφίασιν, ὁμίχλῃ δὲ αὐτὴν ἐσπαργάνωσα.

American Standard Version (1901)

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Jewish Publication Society (1917)

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Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

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