Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
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Gill's Exposition
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth?.... 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…
Barnes' Notes
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? - How far the earth extends. To see the force of this, we must remember that the early conception of the earth was that it was a vast plain, and that in…
Adam Clarke
The breadth of the earth? - At that time the circumference of the globe was not known, because the earth itself was supposed to be a vast extended plain, bordered all round with the ocean and the sky.
The Lord here proceeds to ask Job many puzzling questions, to convince him of his ignorance, and so to shame him for his folly in prescribing to God. If we will but try ourselves with such…
Cambridge Bible
Final query, Whether Job surveyed the whole earth, and comprehended its breadth.
hast thou perceived Rather perhaps, didst thou comprehend?
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