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Job 36

Job 36:30 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold, he spreadeth
paras (Hebrew #6566)
to break apart, disperse, etc.
KJV usage: break, chop in pieces, lay open, scatter, spread (abroad, forth, selves, out), stretch (forth, out).
Pronounce: paw-ras'
Origin: a primitive root
p his light
'owr (Hebrew #216)
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
KJV usage: bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
Pronounce: ore
Origin: from 215
upon it, and covereth
kacah (Hebrew #3680)
properly, to plump, i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
KJV usage: clad self, close, clothe, conceal, cover (self), (flee to) hide, overwhelm. Compare 3780.
Pronounce: kaw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
the δbottom
sheresh (Hebrew #8328)
a root (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bottom, deep, heel, root.
Pronounce: sheh'-resh
Origin: from 8327
of the 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
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Ministry on This Verse

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and.
Job 38:8‑11• 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 38:8‑11)
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Gen. 1:9• 9And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry [land] appear. And it was so. (Gen. 1:9)
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Ex. 14:22,28• 22And the children of Israel went through the midst of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
28And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen of all the host of Pharaoh that had come into the sea after them; there remained not even one of them.
(Ex. 14:22,28)
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Ex. 15:4‑5• 4Pharaoh's chariots and his army hath he cast into the sea;{HR}His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.{HR}
5The depths covered them; they sank to the bottom as a stone.{HR}
(Ex. 15:4‑5)
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Psa. 18:11‑16• 11He maketh darkness his covering,{HR}His tent round about him,{HR}Darkness of waters,{HR}Thick clouds of the skies.
12From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed away:{HR}Hail, and coals of fire.
13And Jehovah thundereth in the heavens,{HR}And the Most High giveth his voice;{HR}Hail and coals of fire.
14And he sendeth his arrows and scattereth them,{HR}And lightnings in abundance,{HR}And discomfiteth them.
15And the channels of waters are seen,{HR}And the foundations of the world are made bare through thy rebuke,{HR}O Jehovah, through the breath of the wind of thy wrath,
16He sendeth from on high, he taketh me,{HR}He draweth me out of great waters.
(Psa. 18:11‑16)
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Psa. 104:5‑9• 5He founded earth on its bases:{HR}It shall not be removed ever and ever.
6With the deep as the garment thou didst cover it;{HR}Upon the mountains stood waters;
7At thy rebuke they fled,{HR}At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
8Mountains rose, valleys sank,{HR}Unto this place thou hast founded for them:
9Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass,{HR}That they return not to cover the earth.
(Psa. 104:5‑9)
bottom.
Heb. roots.
 Signs of His presence (vers. 30-33). (Job 32-37 by S. Ridout)
 The light from His presence strikes to the very depths of the sea. (Job 32-37 by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Lo, he spreadeth his light around himk, and covereth the bottom of the seal.

JND Translation Notes

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k
Or "upon it."
l
Or "with the roots of the sea doth he cover himself."

W. Kelly Translation

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30
Lo! He hath spread over it his light,{HR}And hath covered the depths ofa the sea.

WK Translation Notes

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a
Or, roots.