Verse Comparison: Job 37:17
American Standard Version
How thy garments are warm, When the earth is still by reason of the south `wind'?
Amplified® Bible
[Or] why your garments are hot when He quiets the earth [in sultry summer] with the [oppressive] south wind?
Contemporary English Version
You almost melt in the heat of fierce desert winds when the sky is like brass.
Darby English Version
How thy garments become warm when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
Good News Bible
No, you can only suffer in the heat when the south wind oppresses the land.
King James Version
How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
New American Standard Bible
You whose garments are hot, When the land is still because of the south wind?
New International Version
You who swelter in your clothes
when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
New King James Version
Why are your garments hot,
When He quiets the earth by the south wind?
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
You whose garments seem hot, When the land remains still because of the south wind?
Revised Standard Version
you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?
Young's Literal Translation
How thy garments `are' warm, In the quieting of the earth from the south?
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