Job 37:18
Good News Translation
Can you help God stretch out the sky and make it as hard as polished metal?

New Revised Standard Version
Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?

Contemporary English Version
God can hammer out the clouds in spite of the oppressive heat, but can you?

New American Bible
Can you with him spread out the firmament of the skies, hard as a molten mirror?

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Job 9:8,9 Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea. . . .

Genesis 1:6-8 And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters. . . .

Psalm 104:2 And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion:

Psalm 148:4-6 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that are above the heavens . . .

Psalm 150:1 Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him in the firmament of his power.

Proverbs 8:27 When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters:

Isaiah 40:12,22 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and weighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers the bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? . . .

Isaiah 44:24 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, and thy maker, from the womb: I am the Lord, that make all things, that alone stretch out the heavens, that established the earth, and there is none with me.

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Exodus 38:8 He made also the laver of brass, with the foot thereof, of the mirrors of the women that watched at the door of the tabernacle.

Context
Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty
17Are not thy garments hot, when the south wind blows upon the earth? 18Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most strong, as if they were of molten brass.19Shew us what we may say to him: or we are wrapped up in darkness.…
Cross References
Job 9:8
Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea.

Job 37:17
Are not thy garments hot, when the south wind blows upon the earth?

Psalm 104:2
And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion:

Isaiah 44:24
Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, and thy maker, from the womb: I am the Lord, that make all things, that alone stretch out the heavens, that established the earth, and there is none with me.

Isaiah 45:12
I made the earth: and I created man upon it: my hand stretched forth the heavens, and I have commanded all their host.

Jeremiah 10:12
He that maketh the earth by his power, that prepareth the world by his wisdom, and stretcheth out the heavens by his knowledge.

Zechariah 12:1
The burden of the word of the Lord upon Israel. Thus saith the Lord, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundations of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man in him:

Job 37:17
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