Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

can you help God spread out the skies
as hard as a cast metal mirror?

New American Standard Bible

“Can you, with Him, spread out the skies,
Strong as a molten mirror?

King James Version

Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?

International Standard Version

Can you spread out the skies like he does; can you cast them as one might a mirror?

A Conservative Version

Can thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong as a molten mirror?

American Standard Version

Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?

Amplified


“Can you, with Him, spread out the sky,
Strong as a molten mirror?

Bible in Basic English

Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

Darby Translation

Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror?

Julia Smith Translation

Wilt thou spread out with him to the clouds, strong as the sight of a melted mass?

King James 2000

Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten mirror?

Lexham Expanded Bible

with him can you spread out [the] skies, hard as a molten mirror?

Modern King James verseion

Have you beat out the expanse with Him, hard like a cast mirror?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Hast thou helped him to spread out the heavens, which are strong and bright as a looking glass?

NET Bible

will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

New Heart English Bible

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

The Emphasized Bible

Didst thou spread out, with him, the skies, strong as a molten mirror?

Webster

Hast thou with him spread out the sky which is strong, and as a molten looking-glass?

World English Bible

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

Youngs Literal Translation

Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds -- strong as a hard mirror!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Hast thou with him spread out
רקע 
Raqa` 
Usage: 11

the sky
שׁחק 
Shachaq 
Usage: 21

and as a molten
יצק 
Yatsaq 
Usage: 53

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Majesty

17 You whose clothes get hot
when the south wind brings calm to the land,
18 can you help God spread out the skies
as hard as a cast metal mirror?
19 Teach us what we should say to Him;
we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.


Cross References

Isaiah 44:24

This is what the Lord, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb, says:

I am Yahweh, who made everything;
who stretched out the heavens by Myself;
who alone spread out the earth;

Psalm 104:2

He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe,
spreading out the sky like a canopy,

Exodus 38:8

He made the bronze basin and its stand from the bronze mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Genesis 1:6-8

Then God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating water from water.”

Job 9:8-9

He alone stretches out the heavens
and treads on the waves of the sea.

Psalm 148:4-6

Praise Him, highest heavens,
and you waters above the heavens.

Psalm 150:1

Hallelujah!
Praise God in His sanctuary.
Praise Him in His mighty heavens.

Proverbs 8:27

I was there when He established the heavens,
when He laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean,

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?
Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure
or weighed the mountains in a balance
and the hills in the scales?

Isaiah 40:22

God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

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