Job 38:18
16 Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
19 Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
20 so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
- KJV
- Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
- WEB
- Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
- ASV
- Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.
- DARBY
- Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.
- BLB
- Have you comprehended to the breadths of the earth? Declare it if you know all of it.
- ÅB
- Har du sett ut over jordens vidder? Si fram dersom du kjenner alt dette!
- OTB
- Har du forstått jordens store vidder?
Fortell, hvis du vet alt dette. - B1930
- Har du sett ut over jordens vidder? Si frem dersom du kjenner alt dette!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Revelation 20:9
And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them.
Read in contextPsalms 89:11–12
The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.
Read in contextJeremiah 31:37
This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.
Read in contextIsaiah 40:28
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.
Read in contextJob 28:24
For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
Read in contextPsalms 74:17
You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.
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