Job 38:5 “Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measur…”

Job 38:5

Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

World English Bible

Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

American Standard Version

Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?

Geneva Bible 1599

Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:

Darby Translation

Who set the measures thereof — if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?

Young's Literal Translation

Who placed its measures — if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?

Bible in Basic English

By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

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Cross references

“laid”

Isaiah 40:12 Job 11:9 Job 28:25 Proverbs 8:27 Isaiah 40:22

Isaiah 40:12 · BSB

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance…

Job 11:9 · BSB

Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

Job 28:25 · BSB

When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,

Proverbs 8:27 · BSB

I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

Isaiah 40:22 · BSB

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

“who hath stretched”

Psalm 19:4 Psalm 78:55 Isaiah 34:11 2 Corinthians 10:16 Zechariah 2:1 Zechariah 2:2

Psalm 19:4 · BSB

their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.

Psalm 78:55 · BSB

He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

Isaiah 34:11 · BSB

The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.

2 Corinthians 10:16 · BSB

so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. Then we will not be boasting in the work already done in another man’s territory.

Zechariah 2:1 · BSB

Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

Zechariah 2:2 · BSB

“Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”

Also

Proverbs 8:29

Proverbs 8:29 · BSB

when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

6On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

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