Job 38:18

Hast thou a clear understanding of the breadth of the earth? Tell it, if thou knowest it all.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

In Context

17Were the gates of death ever laid open unto thee? or canst thou see the doors of the shadow of death?

19Where is the way [to the spot where] the light dwelleth? and the darkness—where is its place,

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Cross References

Job 28:24For he looketh to the ends of the earth, [whatever is] under the whole heaven doth he see.

Psalms 89:11(89:12) Thine are the heavens, also thine is the earth: as for the world and what filleth it, thou hast founded them.

Jeremiah 31:37(31:36) Thus hath said the Lord, If the heavens can be measured above, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath: then also will I reject all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith the 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 →

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