Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Who committed to him the earth? and who set up the habitable globe all of it?

New American Standard Bible

“Who gave Him authority over the earth?
And who has laid on Him the whole world?

King James Version

Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?

Holman Bible

Who gave Him authority over the earth?
Who put Him in charge of the entire world?

International Standard Version

Who entrusted the earth to him? Who made him responsible for the entire inhabited world?

A Conservative Version

Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who has disposed the whole world?

American Standard Version

Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?

Amplified


“Who put God in charge over the earth?
And who has laid on Him the whole world?

Bible in Basic English

Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?

Darby Translation

Who hath entrusted to him the earth? and who hath disposed the whole world?

King James 2000

Who has given him charge over the earth? or who has laid on him the whole world?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Who gave him charge [over the] earth? Or who laid on [him] [the] whole world?

Modern King James verseion

Who has given the earth as a deposit with Him? Or who has set the whole world in order?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Who ruleth the earth in his stead? Or whom hath he set to govern the whole world?

NET Bible

Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

New Heart English Bible

Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?

The Emphasized Bible

Who set him in charge of the earth? Or who appointed him the whole world?

Webster

Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?

World English Bible

Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?

Youngs Literal Translation

Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
over the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

Context Readings

Elihu Asserts God's Justice

12 Also surely God will not do evil, and the Almighty will not pervert judgment 13 Who committed to him the earth? and who set up the habitable globe all of it? 14 If he will set his heart to him, he will gather his spirit and his breath to him;


Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:11

To thee, O Jehovah, the greatness and the strength, and the glory and the confidence, and the majesty: for all in the heavens and in the earth to thee, O Jehovah, the kingdom and being lifted up to all for head.

Job 36:23

Who charged upon him his way? and who said, Thou didst iniquity?

Job 38:4-41

Where wort thou in my founding the earth? Announce, if thou knewest understanding.

Job 40:8-11

Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me so that thou shalt be just?

Proverbs 8:23-30

From forever I was knit together, from the beginning, from the first of the earth.

Isaiah 40:13-14

Who measured the spirit of Jehovah? and will a man of his counsel make him to know?

Daniel 4:35

And all the generations of the earth being reckoned as nothing: and doing according to his station in the army of the heavens, and the generations of the earth: and there is none that shall strike upon his hand, and say to him, What didst thou?

Romans 11:34-36

For who knew the mind of the Lord? or who was his counsel?

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