Job (Wisdom Literature, Old Testament) · Wisdom poetry / speech of Elihu
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God sends out his voice/lightning under the whole sky and to the 'kanphei ha'arets' — the wings/corners/ends of the earth.
kanaph literally means 'wing/edge/extremity'. Whether the corners are geographic or poetic is interpretation.
Thunder travels from horizon to horizon across a bounded earth with four wings/corners.
Poetic merism for 'everywhere' — extremities of a habitable region rather than literal geometric corners.
Wing; edge; corner; extremity — often used of the four extremities of the earth.
Brown–Driver–Briggs (BibleHub reprint)Earth; land; the ground or a defined territory.
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Verse discovery: BibleStudyTools — Bible Verses About Flat Earth — Secondary topical-index reference used only to seed the verse list. Not the source of Scripture text or lexical claims. Retrieved 2026-07-26.