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Job 37:18
18he makes the skies reflect the heat like a bronze mirror. Can you do that?
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 understand how he moves the clouds with wonderful perfection and skill? 17When you are sweltering in your clothes and the south wind dies down and everything is still, he makes the skies reflect the heat like a bronze mirror. Can you do that? 19“So teach the rest of us what to say to God. We are too ignorant to make our own arguments. 20Should God be notified that I want to speak? Can people even speak when they are confused?
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 9:8He alone has spread out the heavens and marches on the waves of the sea.
- Genesis 1:6Then God said, “Let there be a space between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth.”
- Psalms 104:2You are dressed in a robe of light. You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;
- Psalms 148:4Praise him, skies above! Praise him, vapors high above the clouds!
- Psalms 150:1Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heaven!
- Proverbs 8:27I was there when he established the heavens, when he drew the horizon on the oceans.
- Isaiah 40:12Who else has held the oceans in his hand? Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers? Who else knows the weight of the earth or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale?
- Isaiah 44:24This is what the Lord says— your Redeemer and Creator: “I am the Lord, who made all things. I alone stretched out the heavens. Who was with me when I made the earth?
- Exodus 38:8Bezalel made the bronze washbasin and its bronze stand from bronze mirrors donated by the women who served at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
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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