Job 38:5 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁵ Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Who determined the measures of the earth, if you know? Or who stretched the measuring line upon it?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?

Common English Bible

⁵ Who set its measurements? Surely you know. Who stretched a measuring tape on it?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Who set its measurements, if you know, or who stretched a line over it?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it?

Job 38:5 Cross References

Job 11:9

The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

Job 28:25

to make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

Job 34:13

Who hath given him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?

Psalm 19:4

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

Psalm 78:55

He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

Proverbs 8:27

When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

Proverbs 8:29

when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Isaiah 34:11

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

Isaiah 40:12

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Isaiah 40:22

It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

2 Corinthians 10:16

to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

1 Samuel 2:8

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them.