Parallel Verses
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?
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
Chazaq
References
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 37:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Majesty
17
You whose garments are hot, when the land is still because of the south wind?
18
Strong as a molten mirror?
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 44:24
I am Jehovah, your savior. I am the one who created you. I am Jehovah, the Creator of all things. I alone stretched out the heavens! No one helped me when I made the earth (I was by myself) (Who was with me?).
Psalm 104:2
You cover yourself with light as with a cloak. You stretch out clouds in the sky like a curtain.
Exodus 38:8
He made the laver (basin) of copper with its base of copper, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
Genesis 1:6-8
Then God said: Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters. Let it separate the waters from the waters.
Job 9:8-9
He alone spreads out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
Psalm 148:4-6
Praise him, you highest heaven and the water above the sky.
Psalm 150:1
Praise Jehovah! Praise God in his holy place. Praise him in his mighty heavens.
Proverbs 8:27
When he prepared the heavens, I was there. When he circled the face of the deep:
Isaiah 40:12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the span of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance of the scale?
Isaiah 40:22
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.