Job 38:18

Hast thou surveyed the breadth of the earth? Declare, if thou knowest it all!

Noyes Bible

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 disclosed to thee, And hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

19Where is the way to the abode of light? And darkness—where is its dwelling-place?

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Cross References

Job 28:24For he seeth to the ends of the earth, And surveyeth all things under the whole heaven.

Psalms 89:11The heavens are thine; thine also is the earth; The world and all that is therein, thou didst found them.

Jeremiah 31:37Thus saith Jehovah: If the heavens above can be measured, Or the foundations of the earth beneath searched out, Then will I cast off all the race of Israel For all which they have done, saith Jehovah.

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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