Job 38:5
Who set its measurements, if you know, or who stretched a line over it?
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 set the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
6Upon what have its bases been grounded, and who set forth its cornerstone,
Cross References
Job 11:9His measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
Psalms 19:4May he be mindful of all your sacrifices, and may your burnt-offerings be fat.
Proverbs 8:27I was already present: when he prepared the heavens; when, with a certain law and a circuit, he fortified the abyss;
Isaiah 34:11The 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 40:22He 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 10:16and 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.
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 →