Job 38:5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?

Cross References

Job 11:9

Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

Job 28:25

When he gave to the wind its weight, and apportioned out the waters by measure;

Job 34:13

Who gave him charge over the earth and who laid on him the whole world?

Psalm 19:4

yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In the heavens he has set a tent for the sun,

Psalm 78:55

He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

Proverbs 8:27

When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,

Proverbs 8:29

when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

Isaiah 34:11

But the hawk and the hedgehog shall possess it; the owl and the raven shall live in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plummet of chaos over its nobles.

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed 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 who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in;

2 Corinthians 10:16

so that we may proclaim the good news in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in someone else's sphere of action.

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world.