Job 38:5
3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
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?
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 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?
Read in contextJob 11:9
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Read in contextZechariah 2:1–2
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Read in contextProverbs 8:27
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Read in contextIsaiah 40:22
It 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:
Read in contextPsalms 78:55
He 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.
Read in contextJob 28:25
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Read in contextIsaiah 34:11
But 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.
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