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King James Version

Job 36:25

Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Testimony;   Holman Bible Dictionary - God;   Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Everyone has seen these things, though only from a distance.
English Revised Version
All men have looked thereon; man beholdeth it afar off.
Update Bible Version
All of man have looked thereon; Common man watches it far off.
New Century Version
Everybody has seen it; people look at it from far off.
New English Translation
All humanity has seen it; people gaze on it from afar.
Webster's Bible Translation
Every man may see it; man may behold [it] afar off.
World English Bible
All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.
Amplified Bible
"All men have seen God's work; Man looks at it from a distance.
English Standard Version
All mankind has looked on it; man beholds it from afar.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle men seen God; ech man biholdith afer.
Berean Standard Bible
All mankind has seen it; men behold it from afar.
Contemporary English Version
From down here on earth, everyone has looked up and seen
American Standard Version
All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.
Bible in Basic English
All people are looking on it; man sees it from far.
Complete Jewish Bible
Everyone has seen it, [but] humans see it [only] from a distance.
Darby Translation
All men look at it; man beholdeth [it] afar off.
Easy-to-Read Version
Everyone can see what he has done, even people in faraway countries.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
All men have looked thereon; man beholdeth it afar off.
King James Version (1611)
Euery man may see it, man may behold it afarre off.
New Life Bible
All men have seen it. Man sees it from far away.
New Revised Standard
All people have looked on it; everyone watches it from far away.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All men see it, and men beholde it afarre off.
George Lamsa Translation
All the peoples have seen it, and beheld it from afar.
Good News Translation
Everyone has seen what he has done; but we can only watch from a distance.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Every son of earth, hath viewed it, Mortal man, looketh at it from afar.
Douay-Rheims Bible
All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.
Revised Standard Version
All men have looked on it; man beholds it from afar.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All men see it, yea men do beholde it a farre of.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Every man has seen in himself, how many mortals are wounded.
Christian Standard Bible®
All mankind has seen it;people have looked at it from a distance.
Hebrew Names Version
All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.
Lexham English Bible
All human beings have looked on it; everyone watches from afar.
Literal Translation
every man has seen it; man beholds it from afar.
Young's Literal Translation
All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
yee wondre at him, and yet they se him but afarre of.
New American Standard Bible
"All people have seen it; Mankind looks at it from afar.
New King James Version
Everyone has seen it; Man looks on it from afar.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"All men have seen it; Man beholds from afar.
Legacy Standard Bible
All men have beheld it;Man looks from afar.

Contextual Overview

24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold. 25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off. 26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. 27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: 28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. 29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? 30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. 31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance. 32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt. 33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 36:2
Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
Genesis 36:5
And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 36:14
And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
Genesis 36:18
And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
1 Chronicles 1:41
The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Every man may see it,.... Not only was to be seen by the wise and learned, the just and good, but by the common people; whether it is to be understood of the works of creation, or of the afflictive providences of God in general, or of Job's afflictions in particular;

man may behold [it] afar off; as to time, from the creation of the world to the present time, as Jarchi; or as to place, from the heaven, so distant, where are the sun, moon, and stars; and which, though so far off, are easily beheld; or as to the manner of seeing them, not darkly, imperfectly, and in a confused manner, as things at a distance are seen, so some understand it; but rather clearly and plainly, as things easy to be seen are clearly discerned at a distance; and it signifies that the work of God here meant is so visible, that he must be quite blind and stupid that cannot see it; it may be seen, as it were, with half an eye, and a great way off; he that runs may see and read.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Every man may see it - That is, every man may look on the visible creation, and see proofs there of the wisdom and greatness of God. All may look on the sun, the moon, the stars; all may behold the tempest and the storm; all may see the lightning and the rain, and may form some conception of the majesty of the Most High. The idea of Elihu here is, that every man might trace the evidences that God is great in his works.

Man may behold it afar off - His works are so great and glorious that they make an impression even at a vast distance. Though we are separated from them by a space which surpasses the power of computation, yet they are so great that they fill the mind with vast conceptions of the majesty and glory of their Maker. This is true of the heavenly bodies; and the more we learn of their immense distances from us, the more is the mind impressed with the greatness and glory of the visible creation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 36:25. Every man may see it — He who says he can examine the earth with a philosophic eye, and the heavens with the eye of an astronomer, and yet says he cannot see in them a system of infinite skill and contrivance, must be ignorant of science, or lie against his conscience, and be utterly unworthy of confidence or respect.


 
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