Job 38:5

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Job 11:9

His measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

Job 28:25

He created a counterweight for the winds, and he suspended the waters to measure them.

Job 34:13

What other is established over the earth? Or whom has he placed over the world, which he made?

Psalm 19:4

May he be mindful of all your sacrifices, and may your burnt-offerings be fat.

Proverbs 8:27

I was already present: when he prepared the heavens; when, with a certain law and a circuit, he fortified the abyss;

Proverbs 8:29

when he encompassed the sea within its limits, and laid down a law for the waters, lest they transgress their limits; when he weighed the foundations of the earth.

Isaiah 34:11

The pelican and the hedgehog will possess it. And the ibis and the raven will live in it. And a measuring line will be extended over it, so that it may be reduced to nothing, and a plumb line, unto desolation.

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and who has weighed the heavens with his palm? Who has suspended the mass of the earth with three fingers, and who has weighed the mountains on a balance and the hills on a scale?

Isaiah 40:22

He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell.

2 Corinthians 10:16

and even so as to evangelize in those places that are beyond you, not in order to glory in the measure of others, but rather in those things which have already been prepared.

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises up the indigent from the dust, and he lifts up the poor from filth, so that they may sit with princes, and take hold of a throne of glory. For the hinges of the earth belong to the Lord, and he has placed the globe upon them.