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Contemporary English Version

Job 36:25

From down here on earth, everyone has looked up and seen

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

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.
King James Version
Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
English Standard Version
All mankind has looked on it; man beholds it from afar.
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.
Amplified Bible
"All men have seen God's work; Man looks at it from a distance.
New American Standard Bible
"All people have seen it; Mankind looks at it from afar.
World English Bible
All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All men see it, and men beholde it afarre off.
Legacy Standard Bible
All men have beheld it;Man looks from afar.
Berean Standard Bible
All mankind has seen it; men behold it from afar.
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.
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.
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
yee wondre at him, and yet they se him but afarre of.
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.
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.
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.
English Revised Version
All men have looked thereon; man beholdeth it afar off.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle men seen God; ech man biholdith afer.
Update Bible Version
All of man have looked thereon; Common man watches it far off.
Webster's Bible Translation
Every man may see it; man may behold [it] afar off.
New King James Version
Everyone has seen it; Man looks on it from afar.
New Living Translation
Everyone has seen these things, though only from a distance.
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.
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.
Young's Literal Translation
All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"All men have seen it; Man beholds from afar.

Contextual Overview

24 Others have praised God for what he has done, so join with them. 25 From down here on earth, everyone has looked up and seen 26 how great God is— God is more than we imagine; no one can count the years he has lived. 27 God gathers moisture into the clouds 28 and supplies us with rain. 29 Who can understand how God scatters the clouds and speaks from his home in the thunderstorm? 30 And when God sends lightning, it can be seen at the bottom of the sea. 31 By producing such rainstorms, God rules the world and provides us with food. 32 Each flash of lightning is one of his arrows striking its target, 33 and the thunder tells of his anger against sin.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 36:2
He married three Canaanite women: The first was Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite; the second was Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah and the granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
Genesis 36:18
The clans that descended from Esau and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah were Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
1 Chronicles 1:41
Anah was the father of Dishon and the grandfather of Hemdan, Eshban, 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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