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Job 38:30
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KJ21
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
ASV
The waters hide themselves and become like stone, And the face of the deep is frozen.
AMP
“Water becomes like stone [and hides itself], And the surface of the deep is frozen and imprisoned.
AMPC
The waters are congealed like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
BRG
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
CSB
when water becomes as hard as stone, and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?
CSBA
when water becomes as hard as stone, and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?
CEB
Water hardens like stone; the surface of the deep thickens.
CJB
when water becomes as hard as stone, and the surface of the deep freezes solid?
CEV
that fall in winter, when streams and lakes freeze solid as a rock?
DARBY
When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together.
DRA
The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.
ERV
That’s when the water freezes as hard as a rock. Even the deep sea freezes over!
EASY
It causes the water to become as hard as stone. The water of the sea also becomes ice.
EHV
The water is disguised as stone, and the surface of the deep is trapped under ice.
ESV
The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
ESVUK
The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
EXB
when the water becomes hard as stone, and even the surface of the ·ocean [deep] is frozen?
GNV
The waters are hid as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frozen.
GW
The water hardens like a stone, and the surface of the ocean freezes over.
GNT
which turn the waters to stone and freeze the face of the sea?
HCSB
when water becomes as hard as stone, and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?
ICB
The waters become hard as stone. Even the surface of the deep ocean is frozen.
ISV
when water solidifies like stone and the surface of the deepest sea freezes?
JUB
The waters harden as stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
KJV
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
AKJV
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
LSB
Water becomes hard like stone, And the surface of the deep is interlocked.
LEB
Like stone the waters become hard, and the faces of the deep freeze.
TLB
For the water changes and turns to ice as hard as rock.
MSG
“Have you ever traveled to where snow is made, seen the vault where hail is stockpiled, The arsenals of hail and snow that I keep in readiness for times of trouble and battle and war? Can you find your way to where lightning is launched, or to the place from which the wind blows? Who do you suppose carves canyons for the downpours of rain, and charts the route of thunderstorms That bring water to unvisited fields, deserts no one ever lays eyes on, Drenching the useless wastelands so they’re carpeted with wildflowers and grass? And who do you think is the father of rain and dew, the mother of ice and frost? You don’t for a minute imagine these marvels of weather just happen, do you?
MEV
The waters harden like stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen.
NOG
The water hardens like a stone, and the surface of the ocean freezes over.
NABRE
When the waters lie covered as though with stone that holds captive the surface of the deep?
NASB
Water becomes hard like stone, And the surface of the deep is imprisoned.
NASB1995
“Water becomes hard like stone, And the surface of the deep is imprisoned.
NCB
causing a layer of stone to cover the waters and the surface of the earth to congeal?
NCV
when the water becomes hard as stone, and even the surface of the ocean is frozen?
NET
when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?
NIRV
The waters become as hard as stone. The surface of the ocean freezes over.
NIV
when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?
NIVUK
when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?
NKJV
The waters harden like stone, And the surface of the deep is frozen.
NLV
Water becomes hard like stone, and the top of the sea is covered with ice.
NLT
For the water turns to ice as hard as rock, and the surface of the water freezes.
NRSVA
The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
NRSVACE
The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
NRSVCE
The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
NRSVUE
The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
OJB
The mayim harden like even (stone), and the face of tehom is frozen.
RGT
“The waters are hidden as a stone, and the face of the depth is frozen.
RSV
The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
RSVCE
The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
TLV
when the waters hide like stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen?
VOICE
When water seems to turn to stone, the face of the deep freezes to imprison its inhabitants.
WEB
The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
WYC
(The) Waters be made hard in the likeness of [a] stone, and the over-part of [the] ocean is constrained together (and the face of the ocean is altogether frozen).
YLT
As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.
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