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New American Standard Bible (1995)
Job 37:18
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can you help God spread out the skiesas hard as a cast metal mirror?
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, Which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror?
You cannot stretch out the sky like God and make it look as hard as polished bronze.
will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?
"Can you, with Him, spread out the sky, Strong as a molten mirror?
"Can you, with Him, spread out the skies, Strong as a cast metal mirror?
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, Which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
Hast thou stretched out the heaues, which are strong, and as a molten glasse?
Can you, with Him, spread out the skies,Strong as a molten mirror?
can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?
God can spread out the clouds to get relief from the heat, but can you?
can you, with him, spread out the sky, hard as a cast metal mirror?
Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror?
Can you help God spread out the sky and make it shine like polished brass?
Were you with him when he spread out the great sky, helping him hold it up?
Can you help God stretch out the sky and make it as hard as polished metal?
with him can you spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?
Can you beat out the expanse with Him, hard like a cast mirror?
hast thou helped him to spred out the heauen, which is to loke vpo, as it were cast of cleare metall?
Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?
Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?
Canst thou with Him spread out the sky, which is strong as a molten mirror?
Hast thou with him spread out the skie, which is strong, and as a molten looking glasse?
Hast thou helped him to spreade out the heauens which are strong and bright as a loking glasse?
Wilt thou establish with him foundations for the ancient heavens? they are strong as a molten mirror.
Canst thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong as a molten mirror?
In hap thou madist with hym heuenes, which moost sad ben foundid, as of bras.
Can you with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?
Hast thou with him spread out the sky [which is] strong, [and] as a molten looking-glass?
With Him, have you spread out the skies, Strong as a cast metal mirror?
he makes the skies reflect the heat like a bronze mirror. Can you do that?
Can you help Him spread out the sky, making it as hard as a mirror made from heated brass?
Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?
Didst thou spread out, with him, the skies, strong as a molten mirror?
Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most strong, as if they were of molten brass.
Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?
Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds -- strong as a hard mirror!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
spread: Job 9:8, Job 9:9, Genesis 1:6-8, Psalms 104:2, Psalms 148:4-6, Psalms 150:1, Proverbs 8:27, Isaiah 40:12, Isaiah 40:22, Isaiah 44:24
as: Exodus 38:8
Reciprocal: Psalms 136:6 - General Isaiah 48:13 - my right hand hath spanned Isaiah 51:13 - that hath
Cross-References
Then he said to him, "Go now and see about the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock, and bring word back to me." So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
A man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field; and the man asked him, "What are you looking for?"
Now Saul told Jonathan his son and all his servants to put David to death. But Jonathan, Saul's son, greatly delighted in David.
For I have heard the slander of many, Terror is on every side; While they took counsel together against me, They schemed to take away my life.
The wicked plots against the righteous And gnashes at him with his teeth.
The wicked spies upon the righteous And seeks to kill him.
They band themselves together against the life of the righteous And condemn the innocent to death.
He turned their heart to hate His people, To deal craftily with His servants.
In return for my love they act as my accusers; But I am in prayer.
"But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.'
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hast thou with him spread out the sky?.... Wast thou concerned with him at the first spreading out of the sky? wast thou an assistant to him in it? did he not spread it as a curtain or canopy about himself, without the help of another? verily he did; see Job 9:8
Isaiah 44:24;
[which] is strong: for though it seems a fluid and thin, is very firm and strong, as appears by what it bears, and are contained in it; and therefore is called "the firmament of his power", Psalms 150:1;
[and] as a molten looking glass; clear and transparent, like the looking glasses of the women, made of molten brass, Exodus 38:8; and firm and permanent u; and a glass this is in which the glory of God, and his divine perfections, is to be seen; and is one of the wondrous works of God, made for the display of his own glory, and the benefit of men, Psalms 19:1. Or this may respect the spreading out a clear serene sky, and smoothing it after it has been covered and ruffled with storms and tempests; which is such a wonderful work of God, that man has no hand in.
u χαλκεος ουρανος. Pindar. Nem. Ode 6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hast thou with him spread out the sky? - That is, wert thou employed with God in performing that vast work, that thou canst explain how it was done? Elihu here speaks of the sky as it appears, and as it is often spoken of, as an expanse or solid body spread out over our heads, and as sustained by some cause which is unknown. Sometimes in the Scriptures it is spoken of as a curtain (Notes, Isaiah 40:22); sometimes as a “firmament,” or a solid body spread out (Septuagint, Genesis 1:6-7); sometimes as a fixture in which the stars are placed (Notes, Isaiah 34:4), and sometimes as a scroll that may be rolled up, or as a garment, Psalms 102:26. There is no reason to suppose that the true cause of the appearance of an expanse was understood at that time, but probably the prevailing impression was that the sky was solid and was a fixture in which the stars were held. Many of the ancients supposed that there were concentric spheres, which were transparent but solid, and that these spheres revolved around the earth carrying the heavenly bodies with them. In one of these spheres, they supposed, was the sun; in another the moon; in another the fixed stars; in another the planets; and it was the harmonious movement of these concentric and transparent orbs which it was supposed produced the “music of the spheres.”
Which is strong - Firm, compact. Elihu evidently supposed that it was solid. It was so firm that it was self-sustained.
And as a molten looking-glass - As a mirror that is made by being fused or cast. The word “glass” is not in the original, the Hebrew denoting simply “seeing,” or a “mirror” (ראי re'ı̂y). Mirrors were commonly made of plates of metal highly polished; see the notes at Isaiah 3:23; compare Wilkinson’s Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, vol. iii. p. 365. Ancient mirrors were so highly polished that in some which have been discovered at Thebes the luster has been partially restored, though they have been buried for many centuries. There can be no doubt that the early apprehension in regard to the sky was, that it was a solid expanse, and that it is often so spoken of in the Bible. There is, however, no direct declaration that it is so, and whenever it is so spoken of, it is to be understood as popular language, as we speak still of the rising or setting of the sun, though we know that the language is not philosophically correct. The design of the Bible is not to teach science, but religion, and the speakers in the Bible were allowed to use the language of common life - just as scientific men in fact do now.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 37:18. Hast thou with him spread out the sky — Wert thou with him when he made the expanse; fitted the weight to the winds; proportioned the aqueous to the terrene surface of the globe; the solar attraction to the quantum of vapours necessary; to be stored up in the clouds, in order to be occasionally deposited in fertilizing showers upon the earth? and then dost thou know how gravity and elasticity should be such essential properties of atmospheric air, that without them and their due proportions, we should neither have animal nor vegetable life?
Strong-as a molten looking-glass? — Like a molten mirror. The whole concave of heaven, in a clear day or brilliant night, being like a mass of polished metal, reflecting or transmitting innumerable images.
