Job 37:18

16 Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

17 You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?

19 Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.

20 Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up ?

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?
KJV
Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
WEB
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
ASV
Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?
DARBY
Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror?
BLB
Have you beaten the skies with him, strong as a mirror of cast metal?
ÅB
Kan du med ham spenne ut himmelen, så fast som et speil av støpt metall?
OTB
Kan du, med Ham, bre ut himmelen,
Sterk som et støpt metall speil?
B1930
Kan du med ham spenne ut himmelen, så fast som et speil av støpt metall?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 44:24

    Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

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  • Psalms 104:2

    He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

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  • Isaiah 40:22

    He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

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  • Exodus 38:8

    Next he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

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  • Psalms 150:1

    Hallelujah! Praise God in His sanctuary. Praise Him in His mighty heavens.

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  • Job 9:8–9

    He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

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  • Isaiah 40:12

    Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

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  • Proverbs 8:27

    I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

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