Job 38:5
3 Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
7 while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
- KJV
- Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
- WEB
- Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
- ASV
- Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?
- DARBY
- Who set the measures thereof if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
- BLB
- Who set its measurements? Surely you must know! Or who stretched over it a line?
- ÅB
- Hvem fastsatte vel dens mål? Vet du det? Eller hvem spente målesnor ut over den?
- OTB
- Hvem fastsatte dens mål? Du vet det vel!
Eller hvem strakte målesnoren over den? - B1930
- Hvem fastsatte vel dens mål? Vet du det? Eller hvem spente målesnor ut over den?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 40:12
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?
Read in contextJob 11:9
Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
Read in contextZechariah 2:1–2
Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Read in contextProverbs 8:27
I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
Read in contextIsaiah 40:22
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.
Read in contextPsalms 78:55
He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Read in contextJob 28:25
When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
Read in contextIsaiah 34:11
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.
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