Job 37:18

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?”

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BSBPD

“can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds--strong as a hard mirror!”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 37:18 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 1:6And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”
  2. Exodus 38:8Next he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
  3. Job 9:8He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
  4. Psalms 104:2He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,
  5. Psalms 148:4Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies.
  6. Psalms 150:1Hallelujah! Praise God in His sanctuary. Praise Him in His mighty heavens.
  7. Proverbs 8:27I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
  8. Isaiah 40:12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
  9. Isaiah 40:22He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
  10. Isaiah 44:24Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

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