Job 38:18
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
Job 38:18 in other translations
| BSB | Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare--if thou hast known it all. |
| DARBY | Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all. |
| BBE | Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all. |
| Webster | Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all. |
What does Job 38:18 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 38:12-24
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…
Job 38:18 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 38:18
- 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.
- Psalms 89:11-12
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
- Jeremiah 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.
- Isaiah 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.
- Job 28:24
For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
- Psalms 74:17
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
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Context
- Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
- Job 38:18
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
- Job 38:19
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
Job 38:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Has tú considerado hasta las anchuras de la tierra? Declara si sabes todo esto. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ton regard a-t-il pénétré jusque dans les vastes espaces de la terre? Dis-le, si tu connais tout cela. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Hast du Einsicht genommen in die Breiten der Erde? Sage an, wenn du es alles weißt! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Numquid considerasti latitudinem terræ? indica mihi, si nosti, omnia: |