Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

Holman Bible

can you help God spread out the skies
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?

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 How thy garments are warm when the earth is still because of the south [wind]? 18 Can thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong as a molten mirror? 19 Teach us what we shall say to him. We cannot set in array because of darkness.

Cross References

Isaiah 44:24

Thus says LORD, thy Redeemer, and he who formed thee from the womb: I am LORD, who makes all things, who stretches forth the heavens alone, who spreads abroad the earth (who is with me?),

Psalm 104:2

who covers thyself with light as with a garment, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

Exodus 38:8

And he made the laver of brass, and the base of it of brass, from the mirrors of the women who fasted, who fasted by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, in the day in which he set it up.

Genesis 1:6-8

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Job 9:8-9

who alone stretches out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea,

Psalm 148:4-6

Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens.

Psalm 150:1

Praise ye LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary. Praise him in the firmament of his power.

Proverbs 8:27

When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended 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 the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in,

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