Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?
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?
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
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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 quiet because of the south wind, 18 Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass? 19 Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.
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Cross References
Isaiah 44:24
The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?
Psalm 104:2
You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
Exodus 38:8
And he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass base, using the polished brass looking-glasses given by the women who did work at the doors of the Tent of meeting.
Genesis 1:6-8
And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.
Job 9:8-9
By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:
Psalm 148:4-6
Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens.
Psalm 150:1
Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to God in his holy place: give him praise in the heaven of his power.
Proverbs 8:27
When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:
Isaiah 40:12
In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?
Isaiah 40:22
It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.