Job 38:5
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New International Version (©1984)
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Who determined its dimensions? Certainly, you know! Who stretched a measuring line over it?

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

American King James Version
Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line on it?

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

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?

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

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

English Revised Version
Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who stretched the line upon it?

Webster's Bible Translation
Who hath laid the measures of it, 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?

Young's Literal Translation
Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?

Geneva Study Bible

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

Wesley's Notes

38:5 Measures - Who hath prescribed how long and broad and deep it should be. Line - the measuring line to regulate all its dimensions.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. measures-of its proportions. Image from an architect's plans of a building.

line-of measurement (Isa 28:17). The earth is formed on an all-wise plan.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

38:4-11 For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, even concerning the earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God's work, so we need not fear concerning it. The works of his providence, as well as the work of creation, never can be broken; and the work of redemption is no less firm, of which Christ himself is both the Foundation and the Corner-stone. The church stands as firm as the earth.


Proverbs 8:29 When He set for the sea its boundary So that the water would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth;
Isaiah 40:12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, And marked off the heavens by the span, And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, And weighed the mountains in a balance And the hills in a pair of scales? (NASB ©1995)

Determined Dimensions Fixed Line Marked Measurements Measures Measuring Placed Stretched Surely Thereof Wisdom


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

laid 11:9 28:25 Pr 8:27 Isa 40:12,22

who hath stretched Ps 19:4 78:55 Isa 34:11 Zec 2:1,2 2Co 10:16

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