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Job 38:18

Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

KJV

Numquid considerasti latitudinem terræ ? indica mihi, si nosti, omnia :

Vulgate

νενουθέτησαι δὲ τὸ εὖρος τῆς ὑπ’ οὐρανόν; ἀνάγγειλον δή μοι πόση τίς ἐστιν.

LXX

Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.

ASV

הִ֭תְבֹּנַנְתָּ עַד רַחֲבֵי אָ֑רֶץ הַ֝גֵּ֗ד אִם יָדַ֥עְתָּ כֻלָּֽ/הּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
יָבִ֥ין
ybyn
verb · 168×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
יַּגֶּד
ygd
verb · 369×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
עַד
'd
noun · 1257×
רַ֭חַב
rchb
noun · 2×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Isa 40:28 — Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
  • Jer 31:37 — Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
  • Job 28:24 — For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
  • Ps 74:17 — Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
  • Ps 89:11 — The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
  • Rev 20:9 — And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.