The LORD Challenges Job
Job 38:18
In 11 translations
- 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.
- LSV
- You have understanding, || Even to the broad places of earth! Declare—if you have known it all.
- YLT
- Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare — if thou hast known it all.
- DBY
- Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.
- DRC
- Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things?
- GNV
- Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? tell if thou knowest all this.
- JPS
- Hast thou surveyed unto the breadths of the earth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.
- LXXE
- And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?
Word by word Hebrew · tap a word
Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הִ֭תְבֹּנַנְתָּ עַד־רַחֲבֵי־אָ֑רֶץ הַ֝גֵּ֗ד אִם־יָדַ֥עְתָּ כֻלָּֽהּ׃
- LXX-Br
- Νενουθέτησαι δὲ τὸ εὖρος τῆς ὑπʼ οὐρανόν; ἀνάγγειλον δή μοι, πόση τίς ἐστι;
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 89:11–12The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded. North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
- Revelation 20:9And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them.
- Jeremiah 31:37This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.
- Psalms 74:17You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.
- Job 28:24For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
- Isaiah 40:28Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.
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