Job 38:5
Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it?
Updated King James 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 foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.
6Whereupon are 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 19:4Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Proverbs 8:27When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Isaiah 34:11But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Isaiah 40:22It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:
2 Corinthians 10:16To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
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 →