Job 38:5
Who fixed her measurements, if thou knowest it? or who stretched the measuring-line over her?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
In Context
6Upon what are her foundation-pillars placed at rest? or who laid her corner-stone:
Cross References
Job 11:9Longer than the earth is its measure, and broader than the sea.
Psalms 19:4(19:5) [But] their melody extendeth through all the earth, and to the end of the world their words. For the sun hath he set a tabernacle among them;
Proverbs 8:27When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle over the face of the deep;
Isaiah 34:11But pelican and hedgehog shall take possession of it; night-owl also and raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out over it the line of destruction, and the weights of desolation.
Isaiah 40:22[It is he] that dwelleth above the circle of the earth, while its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretched 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 →