Job 38:5
Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast the understanding.
6Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,
Cross References
Job 11:9The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Psalms 19:4(19-5) Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath He set a tent for the sun,
Proverbs 8:27When He established the heavens, I was there; when He set a circle upon the face of the deep,
Isaiah 34:11But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein; and He shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
Isaiah 40:22It is He that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
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 →