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Job 38:5
Job 38:5 is verse 5 of Job chapter 38, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
King James Version
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
World English Bible
Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
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Job 38:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
5 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?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 11:9Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
Job 28:25When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
Proverbs 8:27I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
Isaiah 40:12Who 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?
Isaiah 40:22He 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.
Psalms 19:4their 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.
Psalms 78:55He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Isaiah 34:11The 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.
Zechariah 2:1Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Zechariah 2:2“Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”
2 Corinthians 10:16so 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.