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Verse         Translation Text
Job 38:14 Strong Concordance It is turned [02015] as clay [02563] to the seal [02368]; and they stand [03320] as a garment [03830].
  King James It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Explaining the first clause of Job 38:13, as Job 38:15 does the second clause. As the plastic clay presents the various figures impressed on it by a seal, so the earth, which in the dark was void of all form, when illuminated by the dayspring, presents a variety of forms, hills, valleys, &c.

turned--(Hebrew, "turns itself") alludes to the rolling cylinder seal, such as is found in Babylon, which leaves its impressions on the clay, as it is turned about; so the morning light rolling on over the earth.

they stand--The forms of beauty, unfolded by the dawn, stand forth as a garment, in which the earth is clad.
 
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15 And from the wicked [07563] their light [0216] is withholden [04513], and the high [07311] arm [02220] shall be broken [07665].
13 That it might take hold [0270] of the ends [03671] of the earth [0776], that the wicked [07563] might be shaken out [05287] of it?
66 So [1161] they went [4198], and made [805] the sepulchre [5028] sure [805], sealing [4972] the stone [3037], and setting [3326] a watch [2892].