Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

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?

Julia Smith Translation

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

King James 2000

Who has given him charge over the earth? or who has 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 What's more, God truly does not act wickedly, and Shaddai does not pervert justice. 13 Who gave him charge [over the] earth? Or who laid on [him] [the] whole world? 14 If he should set his heart to it, and he should gather his spirit and his breath to himself,

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:11

To you, O Yahweh, [is] the greatness and the power and the splendor and the glory and the strength, for everything in the heavens and in the earth. Yours, O Yahweh, [is] the kingdom and exaltation over all as head!

Job 36:23

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who says, 'You have done wrong'?

Job 38:4-41

"Where were you at my laying the foundation of [the] earth? Tell [me], if you possess understanding.

Job 40:8-11

"Indeed, would you annul my justice? Would you condemn me, so that you might be righteous?

Proverbs 8:23-30

From eternity, I was set up from [the] first, from the beginning of the earth.

Isaiah 40:13-14

Who has measured up the spirit of Yahweh or informed him [as] {his counselor}?

Daniel 4:35

And all the dwellers of the earth are regarded as nothing, and he does {according to} his desire in the host of heaven and [among] the dwellers of earth, and there is not [one] who can hold back his hand, or {ask him}, 'What are you doing?'

Romans 11:34-36

"For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?

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