Job 38:18

Job 38:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
• New International Version (NIV)Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

Context of Job 38:18

16“Have you entered and explored the springs of the sea Or [have you] walked in the recesses of the deep? 17Have the gates of death been revealed to you, Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? Have you understood the expanse of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this. 19“Where is the way where light dwells? And as for darkness, where is its place, 20That you may take it to its territory And that you may know the paths to its house?

Job 38:18 word by word

הִ֭תְבֹּנַנְתָּ עַד־רַחֲבֵי־אָ֑רֶץ הַ֝גֵּ֗ד אִם־יָדַ֥עְתָּ כֻלָּֽהּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Hast thou perceivedבִּיןbîyn · to understandH995
• the breadthרַ֫חַבrachab · breadthH7338
• of the earthאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• declareנָגַדnâgad · to tellH5046
• if thou knowestיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045

Cross-references for Job 38:18

• Psalms 74:17You have defined and established all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations]; You have made summer and winter.
• Psalms 89:11The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all that is in it, You have founded and established them.
• Isaiah 40:28Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become tired or grow weary; There is no searching of His understanding.
• Jeremiah 31:37Thus says the Lord, “If the heavens above can be measured And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also cast off and abandon all the descendants of Israel For all that they have done,” says the Lord.
• Revelation 20:9And they swarmed up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints (God’s people) and the beloved city [Jerusalem]; but fire came down from heaven and consumed them.

Commentaries on Job 38:18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18The breadth of the earth? - At that time the circumference of the globe was not known, because the earth itself was supposed to be a vast extended plain, bordered all round with the ocean and the sky.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? - How far the earth extends. To see the force of this, we must remember that the early conception of the earth was that it was a vast plain, and that in the time of Job its limits were unknown. One of the earliest and most obvious inquiries would naturally be, What was the extent of the earth? By what was it bounded? And what was the character of the regions beyond those which were then known? All this was…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-24Verses 12-24 The Lord questions Job, to convince him of his ignorance, and shame him for his folly in prescribing to God. If we thus try ourselves, we shall soon be brought to own that what we know is nothing in comparison with what we know not. By the tender mercy of our God, the Day-spring from on high has visited us, to give light to those that sit in darkness, whose hearts are turned to it as clay to the seal, 2Co 4:6. God's way in the government of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-41God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. Hast thou--as God doth (Job 28:24).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 38:18

• Blessing
• Continents
• God

In the dictionaries

• Bar
• Consume
• Covert
• Dark
• Hitherto
• Loose
• Reserve
• Satisfy
• Spring
• Sweet

Commentaries on Job 38

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings