Job 37:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?

Job 37:18 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 44:24
Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Psalms 104:2
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
Exodus 38:8
And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Psalms 150:1
Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-20)

Elihu here addresses himself closely to Job, desiring him to apply what he had hitherto said to himself. He begs that he would hearken to this discourse (Job 37:14), that he would pause awhile: Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. What we hear is not likely to profit us unless we consider it, and we are not likely to consider things fully unless we stand still and compose ourselves…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. with him--like as He does (Job 40:15). spread out--given expanse to. strong pieces--firm; whence the term “firmament” (“expansion,” Ge 1:6, Margin; Is 44:24). molten looking glass--image of the bright smiling sky. Mirrors were then formed of molten polished metal, not glass.