Job 38:5
Who decided its dimensions? Don't you know? Who stretched out a measuring line?
Free Bible 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 laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have such knowledge!
6What do its foundations rest upon? Who laid its cornerstone,
Cross References
Job 11:9It extends farther than the earth, and wider than the sea.
Psalms 19:4Yet what they say is heard all over the earth; their message goes to the whole world. God has made a home in the heavens for the sun.
Proverbs 8:27I was there when he placed the heavens in position, when he drew the horizon over the ocean,
Isaiah 34:11The desert owl and screech owl will take it over, and the eagle owl and raven will live there. The Lord will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of destruction and a plumb line of desolation.
Isaiah 40:22God sits on his throne above the horizon of the earth; the people that live there are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, spreading them out like a tent to live in.
2 Corinthians 10:16Then we can share the good news in places way beyond you, without boasting about what's already been done where someone else has worked.
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 →