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Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty

Job 37:18

In 11 translations

BSB
can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?
KJV
Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
WEB
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
ASV
Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?
LSV
You have made an expanse with Him || For the clouds—strong as a hard mirror!
YLT
Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds — strong as a hard mirror!
DBY
Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror?
DRC
Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most strong, as if they were of molten brass.
GNV
Hast thou stretched out the heaues, which are strong, and as a molten glasse?
JPS
Canst thou with Him spread out the sky, which is strong as a molten mirror?
LXXE
Wilt thou establish with him foundations for the ancient heavens? they are strong as a molten mirror.

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Original-language editions

WLC
תַּרְקִ֣יעַ עִ֭מּוֹ לִשְׁחָקִ֑ים חֲ֝זָקִ֗ים כִּרְאִ֥י מוּצָֽק׃
LXX-Br
Στερεώσεις μετʼ αὐτοῦ εἰς παλαιώματα, ἰσχυραὶ ὡς ὅρασις ἐπιχύσεως.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 44:24Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,
  • Psalms 104:2He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,
  • Exodus 38:8Next he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
  • Isaiah 40:22He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
  • Isaiah 40:12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a…
  • Psalms 150:1Hallelujah! Praise God in His sanctuary. Praise Him in His mighty heavens.
  • Proverbs 8:27I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
  • Psalms 148:4–6Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies. Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created. He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will…
  • Genesis 1:6–8And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.” So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so. God called the…
  • Job 9:8–9He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea. He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

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