Job 38:5 · KJV
“Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?”
— Job 38:5
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. {hast...: Heb. knowest understanding}
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; {foundations: Heb. sockets} {fastened: Heb. made to sink?}
Job 38 — Context
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. {answer...: Heb. make me know}
4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. {hast...: Heb. knowest understanding}
5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; {foundations: Heb. sockets} {fastened: Heb. made to sink?}
7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
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? {a measure: Heb. a tierce}
Job 11:9
The measure thereof {is} longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Zechariah 2:1-2
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2 Corinthians 10:16
To preach the gospel in the {regions} beyond you, {and} not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand. {line: or, rule}
Proverbs 8:27
When he prepared the heavens, I {was} there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: {a compass: or, a circle}
Isaiah 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. {cormorant: or, pelican}
Job 28:25
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Psalms 19:4
Their 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, {line: or, rule, or, direction}