God’s Word Translation
Job 37:18
18Can you stretch out the skies with him and make them as firm as a mirror made of metal?
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
16Do you know how the clouds drift (these are the miracles of the one who knows everything), 17you whose clothes are hot and sweaty, when the earth is calm under a south wind? Can you stretch out the skies with him and make them as firm as a mirror made of metal? 19Teach us what we should say to him. We are unable to prepare ⌞a case⌟ because of darkness. 20Should he be told that I want to speak? Can a person speak when he is confused?
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תַּרְקִ֣יעַ עִ֭מּוֹ לִשְׁחָקִ֑ים חֲ֝זָקִ֗ים כִּרְאִ֥י מוּצָֽק׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 37:18
- Job 9:8He stretches out the heavens by himself and walks on the waves of the sea.
- Genesis 1:6Then God said, “Let there be a horizon in the middle of the water in order to separate the water.”
- Psalms 104:2You cover yourself with light as though it were a robe. You stretch out the heavens as though they were curtains.
- Psalms 148:4Praise him, you highest heaven and the water above the sky.
- Psalms 150:1Hallelujah! Praise God in his holy place. Praise him in his mighty heavens.
- Proverbs 8:27“When he set up the heavens, I was there. When he traced the horizon on the surface of the ocean,
- Isaiah 40:12Who has measured the water of the sea with the palm of his hand or measured the sky with the length of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a bushel basket or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills on a balance?
- Isaiah 44:24The Lord reclaimed you. He formed you in the womb. This is what the Lord says: I, the Lord, made everything. I stretched out the heavens by myself. I spread out the earth all alone.
- Exodus 38:8He made the basin and stand out of the bronze mirrors given by the women who served at the entrance to 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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