Job 37:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 44:24 : 24 The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?
  • Ps 104:2 : 2 You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
  • Exod 38:8 : 8 And he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass base, using the polished brass looking-glasses given by the women who did work at the doors of the Tent of meeting.
  • Job 9:8-9 : 8 By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea: 9 Who made the Bear and Orion, and the Pleiades, and the store-houses of the south:
  • Gen 1:6-8 : 6 And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so. 8 And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
  • Ps 148:4-6 : 4 Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens. 5 Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made. 6 He has put them in their places for ever; he has given them their limits which may not be broken.
  • Ps 150:1 : 1 Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to God in his holy place: give him praise in the heaven of his power.
  • Prov 8:27 : 27 When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:
  • Isa 40:12 : 12 In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?
  • Isa 40:22 : 22 It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.

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  • Job 37:15-17
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    15Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

    16Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

    17You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind,

  • Job 38:33-34
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    33Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

    34Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

  • Job 38:24-25
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    24Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

    25By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

  • Job 38:22
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    22Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

  • Job 38:18-20
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    18Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

    19Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

    20So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

  • Ps 104:2-3
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    2You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

    3The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

  • Job 38:4-5
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    4Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

    5By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

  • Job 38:37-38
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    37By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

    38When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

  • Job 36:29-30
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    29And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

    30See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

  • Job 38:29-31
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    29Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?

    30The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

    31Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

  • Job 37:11
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    11The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

  • Job 22:11-14
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    11Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

    12Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

    13And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

    14Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

  • Job 37:19
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    19Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

  • Job 35:5
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    5Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

  • Job 38:9
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    9When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

  • Job 38:12-13
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    12Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

    13So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

  • Job 40:9
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    9Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

  • Jer 10:12
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    12He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

  • Job 37:6
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    6For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.

  • Ps 18:12
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    12Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.

  • Job 26:8-10
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    8By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

    9By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

    10By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

  • Prov 8:28
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    28When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

  • Jer 51:15
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    15He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:

  • Job 38:16
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    16Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

  • Job 9:8
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    8By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

  • Job 36:32
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    32He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Job 26:13
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    13By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

  • Job 37:22
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    22A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.

  • Ps 147:17
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    17He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.

  • Gen 1:17
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    17And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;