Job 38:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?”
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“Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Who placed its measures--if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 38:5 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 2:8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- Job 11:9Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
- Job 28:25When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
- Psalms 19:4their 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.
- Psalms 78:55He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
- Proverbs 8:27I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
- Proverbs 8:29when 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.
- Isaiah 34:11The 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.
- Isaiah 40:12Who 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?
- Isaiah 40:22He 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.
- Zechariah 2:1Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
- 2 Corinthians 10:16so 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.
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