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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?

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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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