Job 7:12 · KJV
“{Am} I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?”
— Job 7:12
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Job 7 — Context
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12{Am} I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
14Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
Cross References
Job 7:17
What {is} man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Lamentations 3:7
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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. {whale: or, dragon}
Job 38:6-11
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; {foundations: Heb. sockets} {fastened: Heb. made to sink?}
Job 41:1-34
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord {which} thou lettest down? {leviathan: probably an extinct animal of some kind} {which...: Heb. which thou drownest?}