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Brenton's Septuagint

Job 38:18

And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Continents;   God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Earth, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Miracles;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - God;   Mystery;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Knowledge;   Nature;   World;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?Tell me, if you know all this.
Hebrew Names Version
Have you comprehended the eretz in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.
King James Version
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
English Standard Version
Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
New Century Version
Do you understand how wide the earth is? Tell me, if you know all these things.
New English Translation
Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!
Amplified Bible
"Have you understood the expanse of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
New American Standard Bible
"Have you understood the expanse of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
World English Bible
Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? tell if thou knowest all this.
Legacy Standard Bible
Have you carefully considered the expanse of the earth?Tell Me, if you know all this.
Berean Standard Bible
Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
Contemporary English Version
And how large is the earth? Tell me, if you know!
Complete Jewish Bible
Have you surveyed the full extent of the earth? Say so, if you know it all!
Darby Translation
Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.
Easy-to-Read Version
Do you really understand how big the earth is? Tell me, if you know all this.
George Lamsa Translation
Have you seen the whole breadth of the earth? Declare to me if you know it all.
Good News Translation
Have you any idea how big the world is? Answer me if you know.
Lexham English Bible
Have you considered closely the earth's vast expanse? Declare it, if you know all of it.
Literal Translation
Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Declare, if you know it all!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Hast thou also perceaued, how brode ye earth is? Now yf thou hast knowlege of all,
American Standard Version
Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.
Bible in Basic English
Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hast thou surveyed unto the breadths of the earth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.
King James Version (1611)
Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Hast thou also perceaued how brode the earth is? If thou hast knowledge of all this:
English Revised Version
Hast thou comprehended the breadth of the earth? declare, if thou knowest it all.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whethir thou hast biholde the brede of erthe? Schewe thou to me, if thou knowist alle thingis,
Update Bible Version
Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
Webster's Bible Translation
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
New King James Version
Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
New Living Translation
Do you realize the extent of the earth? Tell me about it if you know!
New Life Bible
Have you understood how great the earth is? Tell Me, if you know all this.
New Revised Standard
Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hast thou well considered, even the breadths of the earth? Tell - if thou knowest it all!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things?
Revised Standard Version
Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare -- if thou hast known it all.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Have you understood the expanse of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

Contextual Overview

12 Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and did the morning star then first see his appointed place; 13 to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it? 14 Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth? 15 And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud? 16 Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep? 17 And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee? 18 And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it? 19 And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness? 20 If thou couldest bring me to their utmost boundaries, and if also thou knowest their paths; 21 I know then that thou wert born at that time, and the number of thy years is great.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 74:17, Psalms 89:11, Psalms 89:12, Isaiah 40:28, Jeremiah 31:37, Revelation 20:9

Cross-References

Genesis 38:25
And as they were bringing her, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, I am with child by the man whose these things are; and she said, See whose is this ring and bracelet and staff.
Genesis 38:26
And Judas knew them, and said, Thamar is cleared rather than I, forasmuch as I gave her not to Selom my son: and he knew her not again.
Jeremiah 22:24
As I live, saith the Lord, though Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda were indeed the seal upon my right hand, thence would I pluck thee;
Hosea 4:11
The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth?.... Which may be put for all the dimensions of it, length, breadth, diameter, and circumference, but especially it regards the surface of it, and the measurement of that; hast thou gone over the whole face of the earth and measured it, all its parts, its hills and dales, rocks and mountains, and took a survey of all the cities, towns and villages, woods, forests, fountains, rivers, c? no if a man lived as long as Methuselah, and spent all his days in this way, he could never be able to do it; and some parts are inaccessible, and not to be measured by the most skilful geometer;

declare, if thou knowest it all; the whole earth and every part of it, and all that is in it. Whether the other hemisphere and the antipodes were known in Job's time is a question; however not America, or the new world, which is a late discovery; and even now, in our most exact maps of the world, some parts are marked with "terra incognita", the unknown land.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? - How far the earth extends. To see the force of this, we must remember that the early conception of the earth was that it was a vast plain, and that in the time of Job its limits were unknown. One of the earliest and most obvious inquiries would naturally be, What was the extent of the earth? By what was it bounded? And what was the character of the regions beyond those which were then known? All this was hidden from man at that time, and God, therefore, asks with emphasis whether Job had been able to determine this great inquiry. The knowledge of this is put on the same foundation as that of the depths of the sea, and of the dark regions of the dead, and in the time of Job the one was as much unknown as the other. God, who knew all this, must, therefore, be infinitely exalted above man.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 38:18. The breadth of the earth? — At that time the circumference of the globe was not known, because the earth itself was supposed to be a vast extended plain, bordered all round with the ocean and the sky.


 
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