Job 38:5
Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
Majority Standard Bible
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 foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
6On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
Cross References
Job 11:9Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
Psalms 19:4their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
Proverbs 8:27I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
Isaiah 34:11The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
Isaiah 40:22He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
2 Corinthians 10:16so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. Then we will not be boasting in the work already done in another man’s territory.
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 →