Mirror

Actual mirrors

Job 37:18 Mirrored glass was unknown in ancient times. Metal mirrors gave an adequate though imperfect reflection. See also Exodus 38:8; Isaiah 3:23

can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze?

Mirrors illustrating human attitudes

James 1:23–25 See also Proverbs 27:19; 2 Corinthians 3:18

For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so — not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer — he will be blessed in what he does.

Mirrors illustrating an imperfect human view of God

1 Corinthians 13:12

Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.