Job 38:5
Good News Translation
Who decided how large it would be? Who stretched the measuring line over it? Do you know all the answers?

New Revised Standard Version
Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?

Contemporary English Version
Doubtless you know who decided its length and width.

New American Bible
Who determined its size? Surely you know? Who stretched out the measuring line for it?

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

laid

Job 11:9 The measure of him is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

Job 28:25 Who made a weight for the winds, and weighed the waters by measure.

Proverbs 8:27 When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters:

Isaiah 40:12,22 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and weighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers the bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? . . .

who hath stretched

Psalm 19:4 Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world.

Psalm 78:55 And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

Isaiah 34:11 The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched out upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation.

Zechariah 2:1,2 And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold a man, with a measuring line in his hand. . . .

2 Corinthians 10:16 Yea, unto those places that are beyond you to preach the gospel: not to glory in another man's rule, in those things that are made ready to our hand.

Context
God Challenges Job
4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding. 5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest or who hath stretched the line upon it?6Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,…
Cross References
Job 34:13
What other hath he appointed over the earth? or whom hath he set over the world which he made?

Proverbs 8:29
I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;

Isaiah 40:12
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and weighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers the bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Job 38:4
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