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803 B
803 B
Connecting Statement:
This is the end of the rhetorical question that begins with the words "Who shut up" in verse 8. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)
when I made clouds ... and thick darkness its swaddling bands?
This can be translated as a command. Alternate translation: "Tell me who shut up ... when I made clouds ... and thick darkness its swaddling bands." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)
its clothing
"as clothes for the sea"
thick darkness its swaddling bands
The abstract noun "darkness" can be translated as the adjective "dark." Alternate translation: "made dark clouds its swaddling bands" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns)
swaddling bands
long pieces of cloth that people use to wrap a baby in after it is born