Job 38:18
Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
World English Bible Classic
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 you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
19“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
Cross References
Job 28:24For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.
Psalms 89:11The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them.
Jeremiah 31:37The LORD says: “If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says 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 →