Job 38:9

 Job 38:9

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

a. ASV:  When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,  [Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.]

b. YLT: In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,  [The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.]

c. Classic Amplified: When I made the clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, [Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation]

d. Job, Jewish Publication Society of America Text: When i mad the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling band for it.   [Soncino Books of the Bible, Job, 1946; Jewish Publication Society of America Text; Commentary, Rabbi Dr. Victor E. Reichert]

e. ESV: When I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, [Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001, 2007, 2011, 2016 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.]

1. “When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,”

a. [When I] made [Strong: 7760 sûwm, soom; or שִׂים sîym; a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically):—× any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, name, × on, ordain, order, paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, stedfastly, take, × tell, tread down, (over-)turn, × wholly, work.]

b. [the] cloud [Strong: 6051 ʻânân, aw-nawn'; from H6049; a cloud (as covering the sky), i.e. the nimbus or thunder-cloud:—cloud(-y).]

c. [the] garment [thereof] [Strong: 3830 lᵉbûwsh, leb-oosh'; or לְבֻשׁ lᵉbush; from H3847; a garment (literally or figuratively); by implication (euphemistically) a wife:—apparel, clothed with, clothing, garment, raiment, vestment, vesture.]

d. [nd] thick darkness [Strong: 6205 ʻărâphel, ar-aw-fel'; probably from H6201; gloom (as of a lowering sky):—(gross, thick) dark (cloud, -ness).]

e. [a] swaddling band [for it] [Strong: 2854 chăthullâh, khath-ool-law'; from H2853; a swathing cloth (figuratively):—swaddling band.]

1). This passage could refer to creation.

a). Job 38:8-11 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

38:9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

38:10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

38:11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?