Job 38:5
Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
World English Bible Catholic
In The King James Version
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
In Context
4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
6What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
Cross References
Job 11:9Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Psalms 19:4Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
Proverbs 8:27When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
Isaiah 34:11But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
Isaiah 40:22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
2 Corinthians 10:16so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
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 →