Job 38:18
Have thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou know it all.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
In Context
17Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place of it
Cross References
Job 28:24For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven,
Psalms 89:11The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine, the world and the fullness of it; thou have founded them.
Jeremiah 31:37Thus says LORD: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says LORD.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:13-25
Works of God. ( b. c. 1520.) 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee?… Read the whole commentary →