Job 38:5

The English Standar Version

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 the waters by measure,

Job 34:13

Who gave him charge over the earth, and who laid on him[1] the whole world?

Psalm 19:4

Their measuring line[2] goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them 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 porcupine[3] shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion[4] over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

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 dwell in;

2 Corinthians 10:16

so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another's area of influence.

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.