JOB 37:18 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Can you flatten out the sky like him,
⇔ as solid as a cast metal mirror.

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Στερεώσεις μετʼ αὐτοῦ εἰς παλαιώματα, ἰσχυραὶ ὡς ὅρασις ἐπιχύσεως.
(Stereōseis metʼ autou eis palaiōmata, isⱪurai hōs horasis epiⱪuseōs. )

BrTr Wilt thou establish with him foundations for the ancient heavens? they are strong as a molten mirror.

UST Are you able to explain how God made the sky
⇔ so that it would stay firmly in place above the earth?

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

OEB Like Him canst thou spread out the sky,
⇔ Like Him canst thou spread out the sky,
⇔ Which is strong as a molten mirror?

WEBBE Can you, with him, spread out the sky,
⇔ which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

WMBB (Same as above)

NET will you, with him, spread out the clouds,
⇔ solid as a mirror of molten metal?

LSV You have made an expanse with Him
For the clouds—strong as a hard mirror!

FBV Can you hammer out the sky so it becomes like a molten mirror, as he does?

T4T ◄Can you stretch out the skies like God does and make them as hard as [SIM] a sheet of polished brass?/You certainly cannot stretch out the skies like God does and make them as hard as [SIM] a sheet of polished brass!► [RHQ]

LEB • the skies, hard as a molten mirror?

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

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JPS Canst thou with Him spread out the sky, which is strong as a molten mirror?

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

DRA Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most strong, as if they were of molten brass.

YLT Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds — strong as a hard mirror!

Drby Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror?

RV Canst thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong as a molten mirror?

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

KJB-1769 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
(Hast thou/you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass? )

KJB-1611 Hast thou with him spread out the skie, which is strong, and as a molten looking glasse?
(Hast thou/you with him spread out the skie, which is strong, and as a molten looking glasse?)

Bshps Hast thou helped him to spreade out the heauens which are strong and bright as a loking glasse?
(Hast thou/you helped him to spread out the heavens which are strong and bright as a loking glasse?)

Gnva Hast thou stretched out the heaues, which are strong, and as a molten glasse?
(Hast thou/you stretched out the heavens, which are strong, and as a molten glasse? )

Cvdl hast thou helped him to spred out the heauen, which is to loke vpo, as it were cast of cleare metall?
(hast thou/you helped him to spread out the heaven, which is to look upo, as it were cast of clear metall?)

Wycl In hap thou madist with hym heuenes, which moost sad ben foundid, as of bras.
(In hap thou/you madist with him heavens, which most sad been foundid, as of bras.)

Luth Ja, du wirst mit ihm die Wolken ausbreiten, die fest stehen wie ein gegossener Spiegel.
(Ya, you will with him the Wolken ausbreiten, the fest stehen like a gegossener Spiegel.)

ClVg Tu forsitan cum eo fabricatus es cælos, qui solidissimi quasi ære fusi sunt.
(Tu forsitan when/with eo fabricatus you_are cælos, who solidissimi as_if ære fusi are. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

תַּרְקִ֣יעַ עִ֭מּ⁠וֹ לִ⁠שְׁחָקִ֑ים

spread_out with=him/it to,skies

People in this culture believed that the sky was a solid object, a great dome that God had made and placed above the earth. Elihu is speaking as if God had literally melted metal and then hammered it flat in order to make the sky. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Would you be able to create the sky as he did”

Note 2 topic: translate-unknown

כִּ⁠רְאִ֥י מוּצָֽק

as,mirror molten

A mirror is an object that reflects images. People look into mirrors to check their appearance. In this culture, mirrors were made of bright metal. If your readers would not be familiar with what a mirror is, in your translation you could use the name of a comparable metal object in your culture, or you could use a general expression. Alternate translation: “as an object cast from metal”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

כִּ⁠רְאִ֥י מוּצָֽק

as,mirror molten

If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “as a mirror that someone has cast from metal”

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