American Standard Version
Job 37:18
18Canst thou with him spread out the sky,Which is strong as a molten mirror?
Job 37:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
- New International Version (NIV)can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror?
- New King James Version (NKJV)With Him, have you spread out the skies, Strong as a cast metal mirror?
Context of Job 37:18
16Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, The wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge? 17How thy garments are warm, When the earth is still by reason of the southwind? Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror? 19Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot set our speech in order by reason of darkness. 20Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
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תַּרְקִ֣יעַ עִ֭מּוֹ לִשְׁחָקִ֑ים חֲ֝זָקִ֗ים כִּרְאִ֥י מוּצָֽק׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 37:18
- Job 9:8That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea;
- Genesis 1:6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
- Psalms 104:2Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;
- Psalms 148:4Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that are above the heavens.
- Psalms 150:1Praise ye Jehovah. Praise God in his sanctuary: Praise him in the firmament of his power.
- Proverbs 8:27When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
- Isaiah 40:12Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
- Isaiah 44:24Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb: I am Jehovah, that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth (who is with me?);
- Exodus 38:8And he made the laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, of the mirrors of the ministering women that ministered at the door of the tent of meeting.
Commentaries on Job 37:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18Hast thou with him spread out the sky - Wert thou with him when he made the expanse; fitted the weight to the winds; proportioned the aqueous to the terrene surface of the globe; the solar attraction to the quantum of vapours necessary; to be stored up in the clouds, in order to be occasionally deposited in fertilizing showers upon the earth? and then dost thou know how gravity and elasticity should be such essential properties of atmospheric air, that…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18Hast thou with him spread out the sky? - That is, wert thou employed with God in performing that vast work, that thou canst explain how it was done? Elihu here speaks of the sky as it appears, and as it is often spoken of, as an expanse or solid body spread out over our heads, and as sustained by some cause which is unknown. Sometimes in the Scriptures it is spoken of as a curtain (Notes, Isaiah 40:22); sometimes as a “firmament,” or a solid body spread…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-20Verses 14-20 Due thoughts of the works of God will help to reconcile us to all his providences. As God has a powerful, freezing north wind, so he has a thawing, composing south wind: the Spirit is compared to both, because he both convinces and comforts, So 4:16. The best of men are much in the dark concerning the glorious perfections of the Divine nature and the Divine government. Those who, through grace, know much of God, know nothing, in comparison…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. with him--like as He does (Job 40:15). spread out--given expanse to. strong pieces--firm; whence the term "firmament" ("expansion," Ge 1:6, Margin; Is 44:24). molten looking glass--image of the bright smiling sky. Mirrors were then formed of molten polished metal, not glass.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 37
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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