God’s Word Translation
Job 38:18
18Have you ⌞even⌟ considered how wide the earth is? Tell me, if you know all of this!
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
16Have you gone to the springs in the sea or walked through the valleys of the ocean depths? 17Have the gateways to death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gateways to total darkness? Have you ⌞even⌟ considered how wide the earth is? Tell me, if you know all of this! 19“What is the way to the place where light lives? Where is the home of darkness 20so that you may lead it to its territory, so that you may know the path to its home?
Read all of Job 38Job 38:18 word by word
הִ֭תְבֹּנַנְתָּ עַד־רַחֲבֵי־אָ֑רֶץ הַ֝גֵּ֗ד אִם־יָדַ֥עְתָּ כֻלָּֽהּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 38:18
- Psalms 74:17You determined all the boundaries of the earth. You created summer and winter.
- Psalms 89:11The heavens are yours. The earth is also yours. You made the world and everything in it.
- Isaiah 40:28Don’t you know? Haven’t you heard? The eternal God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t grow tired or become weary. His understanding is beyond reach.
- Jeremiah 31:37This is what the Lord says: Only if the heavens could be measured or the foundations of the earth could be searched, would I ever reject all of Israel’s descendants because of everything that they have done, declares the Lord.
- Revelation 20:9⌞I saw that⌟ they spread over the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s holy people and the beloved city. Fire came from heaven and burned them up.
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
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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
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