Job 38:5
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 38 connects to 10 cross-references. God speaks from the whirlwind in the first divine speech, challenging Job with a series of cosmic questions: Where was Job when God laid the foundation of the earth? Who shut in the sea when it burst from the womb? …
Other Translations
Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?
Who placed its measures--if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?
By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
Cross References
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the …
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth …
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended …
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and …
Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth …
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made …