Job 38:18
Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare — if thou hast known it all.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
In Context
17Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?
19Where [is] this — the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where [is] this — its place?
Cross References
Job 28:24For He to the ends of the earth doth look, Under the whole heavens He doth see,
Psalms 89:11Thine [are] the heavens — the earth also [is] Thine, The habitable world and its fulness, Thou hast founded them.
Jeremiah 31:37Thus said Jehovah: If the heavens above be measured, And the foundations of earth below searched, Even I kick against all the seed of Israel, For all that they have done, An affirmation of 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 →