Job 38:5
Who set the measures thereof if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
Darby Translation
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 wast thou when I founded the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
6Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken? or who laid its corner-stone,
Cross References
Job 11:9The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Psalms 19:4Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their language to the extremity of the world. In them hath he set a tent for the sun,
Proverbs 8:27When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he ordained the circle upon the face of the deep;
Isaiah 34:11And the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the great owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And he shall stretch out upon it the line of waste, and the plummets of emptiness.
Isaiah 40:22[It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
2 Corinthians 10:16to announce the glad tidings to that [which is] beyond you, not to be boasting in another's rule of things made ready to 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 →