Job 38:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

Cross References

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure or weighed the mountains on a balance and the hills on the scales?

Job 11:9

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

2 Corinthians 10:16

so that we may preach the gospel to the regions beyond you  without boasting about what has already been done in someone else’s area of ministry.

Isaiah 40:22

God is enthroned above the circle of the earth; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

Isaiah 34:11

Eagle owls  and herons  will possess it, and long-eared owls and ravens will dwell there. The Lord will stretch out a measuring line and a plumb line  over her for her destruction and chaos.

Proverbs 8:27

I was there when he established the heavens, when he laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean,

Job 28:25

When God fixed the weight of the wind and distributed the water by measure,

Proverbs 8:29

when he set a limit for the sea so that the waters would not violate his command, when he laid out the foundations of the earth.

Job 34:13

Who gave him authority over the earth? Who put him in charge of the entire world?

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the rubbish heap. He seats them with noblemen and gives them a throne of honour. For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s; he has set the world on them.