English Standard Version
Job 37:18
18Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal 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?
- New King James Version (NKJV)With Him, have you spread out the skies, Strong as a cast metal mirror?
- New Living Translation (NLT)he makes the skies reflect the heat like a bronze mirror. Can you do that?
Context of Job 37:18
16Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge, 17you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind? Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror? 19Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness. 20Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?
Read all of Job 37Job 37:18 word by word
תַּרְקִ֣יעַ עִ֭מּוֹ לִשְׁחָקִ֑ים חֲ֝זָקִ֗ים כִּרְאִ֥י מוּצָֽק׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 37:18
- Job 9:8who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;
- Genesis 1:6And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."
- Psalms 104:2covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.
- Psalms 148:4Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!
- Psalms 150:1Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens!
- Proverbs 8:27When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
- Isaiah 40:12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
- Isaiah 44:24Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: "I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,
- Exodus 38:8He made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered in the entrance 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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