Job 38:18
You have understanding, || Even to the broad places of earth! Declare—if you have known it all.
Literal Standard Version
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 revealed to you? And do you see the gates of death-shade?
19Where [is] this—the way light dwells? And darkness, where [is] this—its place?
Cross References
Job 28:24For He looks to the ends of the earth, || He sees under the whole heavens,
Psalms 89:11The heavens [are] Yours, || The earth [is] also Yours, || The habitable world and its fullness, || You have founded them.
Jeremiah 31:37Thus said YHWH: “If the heavens above can be measured, || And the foundations of earth searched below, || Even I kick against all the seed of Israel, || For all that they have done,” || A declaration of YHWH.
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 →