Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Have thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou know it all.
New American Standard Bible
Tell Me, if you know all this.
King James Version
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
Holman Bible
Tell Me, if you know all this.
International Standard Version
Do you understand the breadth of the earth? Tell me, since you know it all!
American Standard Version
Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.
Amplified
“Have you understood the expanse of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this.
Bible in Basic English
Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.
Darby Translation
Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.
Julia Smith Translation
Wilt thou consider even to the breadth of the earth? Announce if thou knewest all of it
King James 2000
Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Have you considered closely [the] earth's vast expanse? Declare [it], if you know all of it.
Modern King James verseion
Have you understood the breadth of the earth? Tell, if you know it all!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hast thou also perceived how broad the earth is? Now if thou hast knowledge of all,
NET Bible
Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!
New Heart English Bible
Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.
The Emphasized Bible
Hast thou well considered, even the breadths of the earth? Tell - if thou knowest it all!
Webster
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
World English Bible
Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare -- if thou hast known it all.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death? 18 Have thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou know it all. 19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place of it
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 28:24
For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven,
Psalm 74:17
Thou have set all the borders of the earth. Thou have made summer and winter.
Psalm 89:11-12
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine, the world and the fullness of it; thou have founded them.
Isaiah 40:28
Have thou not known? Have thou not heard? The everlasting God, LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, nor is weary. There is no searching of his understanding.
Jeremiah 31:37
Thus says LORD: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says LORD.
Revelation 20:9
And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the encampment of the sanctified and the beloved city. And fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them.