Parallel Verses

NET Bible

will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

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?

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?

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 You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind, 18 will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal? 19 Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

Cross References

Isaiah 44:24

This is what the Lord, your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb: "I am the Lord, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,

Psalm 104:2

He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

Exodus 38:8

He made the large basin of bronze and its pedestal of bronze from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Genesis 1:6-8

God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.

Job 9:8-9

he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;

Psalm 148:4-6

Praise him, O highest heaven, and you waters above the sky!

Psalm 150:1

Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in the sky, which testifies to his strength!

Proverbs 8:27

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured out the waters in the hollow of his hand, or carefully measured the sky, or carefully weighed the soil of the earth, or weighed the mountains in a balance, or the hills on scales?

Isaiah 40:22

He is the one who sits on the earth's horizon; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, and spreads it out like a pitched tent.

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