Job 38:18

18 ¿Has comprendido la extensión de la tierra? Dímelo, si tú sabes todo esto.

Job 38:18 Meaning and Commentary

Job 38:18

Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth?
&c.] Which may be put for all the dimensions of it, length, breadth, diameter, and circumference, but especially it regards the surface of it, and the measurement of that; hast thou gone over the whole face of the earth and measured it, all its parts, its hills and dales, rocks and mountains, and took a survey of all the cities, towns and villages, woods, forests, fountains, rivers, &c? no; if a man lived as long as Methuselah, and spent all his days in this way, he could never be able to do it; and some parts are inaccessible, and not to be measured by the most skilful geometer;

declare, if thou knowest it all;
the whole earth and every part of it, and all that is in it. Whether the other hemisphere and the antipodes were known in Job's time is a question; however not America, or the new world, which is a late discovery; and even now, in our most exact maps of the world, some parts are marked with "terra incognita", the unknown land.

Job 38:18 In-Context

16 ¿Has entrado hasta las fuentes del mar, o andado en las profundidades del abismo?
17 ¿Te han sido reveladas las puertas de la muerte, o has visto las puertas de la densa oscuridad?
18 ¿Has comprendido la extensión de la tierra? Dímelo, si tú sabes todo esto.
19 ¿Dónde está el camino a la morada de la luz? Y la oscuridad, ¿dónde está su lugar,
20 para que la lleves a su territorio, y para que disciernas los senderos de su casa?
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