Job 38:5

In 11 translations

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?

LSV

Who placed its measures—if you know? Or who has stretched out a line on it?

YLT

Who placed its measures — if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?

DBY

Who set the measures thereof — if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?

DRC

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

GNV

Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:

JPS

Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?

LXXE

who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?

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WLC

מִי־שָׂ֣ם מְ֭מַדֶּיהָ כִּ֣י תֵדָ֑ע א֤וֹ מִֽי־נָטָ֖ה עָלֶ֣יהָ קָּֽו׃

LXX-Br

Τίς ἔθετο τὰ μέτρα αὐτῆς, εἰ οἶδας; ἢ τίς ὁ ἐπαγαγὼν σπαρτίον ἐπʼ αὐτῆς;

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• 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…
• Zechariah 2:1–2Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. “Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”
• Job 11:9Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
• Proverbs 8:27I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Job 28:25When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
• 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.
• Proverbs 8:29when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.

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