Job 38:5
By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
In Context
4Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.
6On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,
Cross References
Job 11:9Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.
Psalms 19:4\19:3\There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound.
Proverbs 8:27When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:
Isaiah 34:11But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land.
Isaiah 40:22It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.
2 Corinthians 10:16So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:5-12
The Creation of the World. ( b. c. 1520.) 4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9 When I made the… Read the whole commentary →