Ayub 38:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Apakah engkau mengerti luasnya bumi? Nyatakanlah, kalau engkau tahu semuanya itu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Apakah engkau mengerti luasnya bumi? Nyatakanlah, kalau engkau tahu semuanya itu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Sudahkah dengan akalmu engkau sampai kepada lebar bumi? katakanlah olehmu jikalau engkau mengetahuinya.

Contextual Overview

¹² Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place, ¹³ That it might take holde of the corners of the earth, and that the vngodly might be shaken out of it. ¹⁴ They are fashioned as is the clay with the seale, and all stand vp as a garment. ¹⁵ The vngodly shall be disapointed of their light, and the arme of the proude shalbe broken. ¹⁶ Camest thou euer into the grounde of the sea, or walkedst in the lowe corners of the deepe? ¹⁷ Haue the gates of death ben opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the doores of the shadowe of death? ¹⁸ Hast thou also perceaued how brode the earth is? If thou hast knowledge of all this: ¹⁹ Then shewe me the way where light dwelleth, & where is the place of darkenesse? ²⁰ That thou shouldest receaue it in the boundes thereof, and know the pathes to their houses. ²¹ Knewest thou afore thou wast borne how olde thou shouldest be?

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 38:25
And when they brought her foorth, she sent to her father in lawe, saying: By the man vnto whom these thynges [pertaine] am I with chylde: And saide also, Loke I pray thee whose are these, this seale, and this bracelet, and this staffe.

Genesis 38:26
And Iuda acknowledged them, and saide: She hath ben more righteous then I, because I gaue her not Selah my sonne. And he lay with her no more.

Jeremiah 22:24
As truely as I liue saith the Lorde, though Conanias the sonne of Iehoakim kyng of Iuda were the signet of my right hande, yet wyll I plucke him of.

Hosea 4:11
Whordome, wine, and newe wine, take the heart away.

Luke 15:22
But the father saide to his seruauntes: bryng foorth the best garment, and put it on hym, and put a ryng on his hande, and shoes on his feete:

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.