Job (Wisdom Literature, Old Testament) · Wisdom poetry / speech of Elihu
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Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a molten/cast metal mirror?
The verse uses simile ('as … a molten mirror'). Whether Elihu presumes a hard dome or is speaking figuratively is interpretation.
A solid, beaten-out firmament — a metal-hard dome overhead, akin to the raqia of Genesis 1.
Simile: the sky is described as strong or reflective, not literally metallic. The comparison is to a mirror's surface polish, not the sky's material.
Heavens; sky. Dual/plural form; the visible expanse above.
Brown–Driver–Briggs (BibleHub reprint)Firmament; expanse; something beaten out or spread thin.
Brown–Driver–Briggs (BibleHub reprint)Scripture text: World English Bible (public domain) — Heavens Declare verified corpus. Every verse on this page is rendered from the verified corpus already ingested into Heavens Declare — not from the discovery article.
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