Job 38:18
Do you know how big the earth is? Tell me, if you know all these things!
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
In Context
19“Where is the road to the place where light comes from? And can you tell me where darkness lives?
Cross References
Job 28:24because he can see things even in the most remote/distant places on the earth; he can see everything that is below the sky.
Psalms 89:11The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours; and everything on the earth is yours, because you created it all.
Jeremiah 31:37And this is what I say: ‘No one can measure the sky, and no one can find out what is supporting the earth. Similarly, I cannot reject forever the descendants of Jacob because of all the evil things that they have done.’ That is certain, because I, Yahweh, have said it!
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 →