Job 38:5
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Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
In other translations
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Isaiah 40:12Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
- Zechariah 2:1-21 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.1 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 “Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”
- Job 11:9The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
- 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.so 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.
- Proverbs 8:27When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
- Psalm 78:55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
- Job 28:25To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
- 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.The 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.
- Psalm 19:4Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,their 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.
- Isaiah 40:22It is he that sitteth upon 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:He 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.
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