Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
New American Standard Bible
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?
Holman Bible
as hard as a cast metal mirror?
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?
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 37:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Majesty
17 You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind? 18 Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror? 19 Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 44:24
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;
Psalm 104:2
He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
Exodus 38:8
He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Genesis 1:6-8
God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
Job 9:8-9
He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
Psalm 148:4-6
Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens.
Psalm 150:1
Praise the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary. Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power.
Proverbs 8:27
When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
Isaiah 40:12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 40:22
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;