Bible Strands
Job 11:9
Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — A speaker addresses a listener in a discourse on divine transcendence, positioned between rhetorical questions about height and depth in Job 11:8 and a warning about divine judgment in Job 11:10.
The words — מִדָּ֑הּ (mi.Dah) = measure and אֲרֻכָּה ('a.ru.Kah) = is long. The text uses these terms to describe a dimension that exceeds earthly and marine boundaries.
The thread — The theme of divine reach beyond earthly limits appears in Psalms 139:9, Job 28:24, and Psalms 65:5.
Why it lands — The verse demands recognition of a limit to human knowledge and power when confronted with a scope that surpasses all created boundaries.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Cross-references
- Psalms 139:9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
- Job 28:24 For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
- Psalms 65:5 With awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.