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
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them …
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of …
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the …
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and …
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended …
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth …
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.