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Job 37:18

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37:18will you, with him, spread out22 the clouds,

solid as a mirror of molten metal?

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Footnotes

  1. 22 The verb means “to beat out; to flatten,” and the analogy in the next line will use molten metal. From this verb is derived the word for the “firmament” in Gen 1:6–8, that canopy-like pressure area separating water above and water below.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Can you, like him, spread out the skies,

hard as a cast metal mirror?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

can you join him in spreading out the skies,

hard as a mirror of cast bronze?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

can you help God spread out the skies

as hard as a cast metal mirror?

NLTNew Living Translation

he makes the skies reflect the heat like a bronze mirror.

Can you do that?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

with him can you spread out the skies,

hard as a molten mirror?

KJV 1900King James Version

Hast thou with him spread out the sky,

Which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?