Job 38:18
16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
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 went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Read in contextPsalms 89:11–12
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
Read in contextJeremiah 31:37
Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
Read in contextIsaiah 40:28
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Read in contextJob 28:24
For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
Read in contextPsalms 74:17
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
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