Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
as hard as a cast metal mirror?
New American Standard Bible
Strong as a molten mirror?
King James Version
Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
International Standard Version
Can you spread out the skies like he does; can you cast them as one might a mirror?
A Conservative Version
Can thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong as a molten mirror?
American Standard Version
Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?
Amplified
“Can you, with Him, spread out the sky,
Strong as a molten mirror?
Bible in Basic English
Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?
Darby Translation
Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror?
Julia Smith Translation
Wilt thou spread out with him to the clouds, strong as the sight of a melted mass?
King James 2000
Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten mirror?
Lexham Expanded Bible
with him can you spread out [the] skies, hard as a molten mirror?
Modern King James verseion
Have you beat out the expanse with Him, hard like a cast mirror?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hast thou helped him to spread out the heavens, which are strong and bright as a looking glass?
NET Bible
will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?
New Heart English Bible
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
The Emphasized Bible
Didst thou spread out, with him, the skies, strong as a molten mirror?
Webster
Hast thou with him spread out the sky which is strong, and as a molten looking-glass?
World English Bible
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds -- strong as a hard mirror!
Interlinear
Chazaq
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 37:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Majesty
17
when the south wind brings calm to the land,
as hard as a cast metal mirror?
we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 44:24
This is what the Lord, your Redeemer
who stretched out the heavens by Myself;
who alone spread out the earth;
Psalm 104:2
He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe,
spreading out the sky like a canopy,
Exodus 38:8
He made the bronze basin and its stand from the bronze mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Genesis 1:6-8
Then God said, “Let there be an expanse
Job 9:8-9
and treads on the waves of the sea.
Psalm 148:4-6
Praise Him, highest heavens,
and you waters above the heavens.
Psalm 150:1
Hallelujah!
Praise God in His sanctuary.
Praise Him in His mighty heavens.
Proverbs 8:27
when He laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean,
Isaiah 40:12
or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?
Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure
or weighed the mountains in a balance
and the hills in the scales?
Isaiah 40:22
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.