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New Living Translation

Job 38:18

Do you realize the extent of the earth? Tell me about it if you know!

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:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?
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 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 "Have you ever commanded the morning to appear and caused the dawn to rise in the east? 13 Have you made daylight spread to the ends of the earth, to bring an end to the night's wickedness? 14 As the light approaches, the earth takes shape like clay pressed beneath a seal; it is robed in brilliant colors. 15 The light disturbs the wicked and stops the arm that is raised in violence. 16 "Have you explored the springs from which the seas come? Have you explored their depths? 17 Do you know where the gates of death are located? Have you seen the gates of utter gloom? 18 Do you realize the extent of the earth? Tell me about it if you know! 19 "Where does light come from, and where does darkness go? 20 Can you take each to its home? Do you know how to get there? 21 But of course you know all this! For you were born before it was all created, and you are so very experienced!

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
But as they were taking her out to kill her, she sent this message to her father-in-law: "The man who owns these things made me pregnant. Look closely. Whose seal and cord and walking stick are these?"
Genesis 38:26
Judah recognized them immediately and said, "She is more righteous than I am, because I didn't arrange for her to marry my son Shelah." And Judah never slept with Tamar again.
Jeremiah 22:24
"As surely as I live," says the Lord , "I will abandon you, Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah. Even if you were the signet ring on my right hand, I would pull you off.
Hosea 4:11
to worship other gods. "Wine has robbed my people of their understanding.
Luke 15:22
"But his father said to the servants, ‘Quick! Bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him. Get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet.

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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