Ayub 37:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Dapatkah engkau seperti Dia menyusun awan menjadi cakrawala, keras seperti cermin tuangan?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dapatkah engkau seperti Dia menyusun awan menjadi cakrawala, keras seperti cermin tuangan?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Sudahkah engkau membentangkan langit serta-Nya, sehingga ia itu seperti cermin tuangan?

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Hearken vnto this O Iob, stand still, and consider the wonderous workes of God. ¹⁵ Didst thou know when God disposed them? & caused the light of his cloudes to shine? ¹⁶ Hast thou knowen the varietie of the cloudes, and the wonderous workes of him which is perfect in knowledge? ¹⁷ And how thy clothes are warme, when the lande is stil through the south winde? ¹⁸ Hast thou helped him to spreade out the heauens which are strong and bright as a loking glasse? ¹⁹ Teache vs what we shall saye vnto him: for we are vnmeete to frame our talke because of darkenesse. ²⁰ Shall it be tolde him what I saye? Shall man speake when he shalbe destroyed?

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

Genesis 37:14
He aunswered: here am I. And he sayde vnto hym: Go [I praye thee] see whether it be well with thy brethren and the cattell, and bryng me worde agayne. And so he sent hym out of the vale of Hebron, & he came to Sichem.

Genesis 37:15
And a certayne man founde hym, and beholde he was wandryng out of his waye in the fielde, and the man asked hym: what sekest thou?

1 Samuel 19:1
Saul spake to Ionatha his sonne, and to all his seruauntes, that they should kill Dauid.

Psalms 31:13
For I haue hearde the villanie of the multitude, and feare was on euery side [me]: whyle they conspired together against me, [and] toke their counsell to take away my life.

Psalms 37:12
The vngodly busieth his head [all] against the iust: and gnasheth vpon him with his teeth.

Psalms 37:32
The vngodly spyeth the righteous: and seeketh [occasion] to slay hym.

Psalms 94:21
They flocke together agaynst the soule of the ryghteous: and condemne the innocent blood.

Psalms 105:25
Whose heart so turned that they hated his people: and dealt subtilly with his seruauntes.

Psalms 109:4
For the loue that I bare vnto them, they are become mine aduersaries: but I geue my selfe vnto prayer.

Matthew 21:38
But when the husband men sawe the sonne, they sayde among them selues: this is the heire, come, let vs kyll hym, and let vs enioy his inheritaunce.

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 r^e'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.