# 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/jit/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/jit/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/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])

# swaddling bands

long pieces of cloth that people use to wrap a baby in after it is born