Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Can you, with Him, spread out the sky,
Strong as a molten 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?
International Standard Version
Can you spread out the skies like he does; can you cast them as one might a 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?
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 37:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Majesty
17
You whose garments are hot,
When He quiets the earth [in sultry summer] with the [oppressive] south wind?
“Can you, with Him, spread out the sky,
Strong as a molten mirror?
“Tell us [Job] what words [of man] shall we say to such a Being;
We cannot state our case because of darkness [that is, our ignorance in the presence of the unsearchable God].
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 44:24
For the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb says this,
Who alone stretches out the heavens,
Who spreads out the earth
Psalm 104:2
[You are the One] who covers Yourself with light as with a garment,
Who stretches out the heavens like a tent curtain,
Exodus 38:8
Bezalel made the basin and its base of bronze from the mirrors of the attending women who served and ministered at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting.
Genesis 1:6-8
And God said, “Let there be an
Job 9:8-9
Who alone stretches out the heavens
And tramples down the
Psalm 148:4-6
Praise Him, highest heavens,
And the waters above the heavens!
Psalm 150:1
Praise God in His sanctuary;
Praise Him in His mighty heavens.
Proverbs 8:27
“When He established the heavens, I [Wisdom] was there;
When He drew a circle upon the face of the deep,
Isaiah 40:12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,
And marked off the heavens with a span [of the hand],
And calculated the dust of the earth with a
And weighed the mountains in a balance
And the hills in a pair of scales?
Isaiah 40:22
It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
[It is He] who stretches out the heavens like a veil
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.