Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Can you spread out the skies like he does; can you cast them as one might a mirror?
New American Standard Bible
Strong as a molten mirror?
King James Version
Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
Holman Bible
as hard as a cast metal mirror?
A Conservative Version
Can thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong as a molten mirror?
American Standard Version
Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?
Amplified
“Can you, with Him, spread out the sky,
Strong as a molten mirror?
Bible in Basic English
Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?
Darby Translation
Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror?
Julia Smith Translation
Wilt thou spread out with him to the clouds, strong as the sight of a melted mass?
King James 2000
Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten mirror?
Lexham Expanded Bible
with him can you spread out [the] skies, hard as a molten mirror?
Modern King James verseion
Have you beat out the expanse with Him, hard like a cast mirror?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hast thou helped him to spread out the heavens, which are strong and bright as a looking glass?
NET Bible
will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?
New Heart English Bible
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
The Emphasized Bible
Didst thou spread out, with him, the skies, strong as a molten mirror?
Webster
Hast thou with him spread out the sky which is strong, and as a molten looking-glass?
World English Bible
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds -- strong as a hard mirror!
Interlinear
Chazaq
References
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Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 37:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Majesty
17 you whose garments are hot, even though the land is cooled by a south wind? 18 Can you spread out the skies like he does; can you cast them as one might a mirror? 19 Tell us! What are we to say to him? Can we prepare our case to face him when our faces are in darkness?
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 44:24
"This is what the LORD says, your Redeemer and the one who formed you in the womb: "I am the LORD, who has made everything, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth Who was with me at that time?
Psalm 104:2
you are wrapped in light like a garment, stretching out the sky like a curtain.
Exodus 38:8
He made the bronze basin and its bronze base from mirrors contributed by the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Genesis 1:6-8
Then God said, "Let there be a canopy between bodies of water, separating bodies of water from bodies of water!"
Job 9:8-9
He alone spreads out the heavens, he walks on the waves of the sea.
Psalm 148:4-6
Praise him, you heaven of heavens, and you waters above the heavens.
Psalm 150:1
Hallelujah! Praise God in his Holy Place. Praise him in his great expanse.
Proverbs 8:27
when he crafted the heavens, I was there when he marked out a circle on the face of the deep,
Isaiah 40:12
"Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens by the width of his hand? Who has enclosed the dust of the earth in a measuring bowl, or weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 40:22
He's the one who sits above the disk of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He's the one who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in,