Job 38:5
Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?
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- Isa 40:12 : 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?
- Job 11:9 : 9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, And broader than the sea.
- Job 28:25 : 25 To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.
- Ps 19:4 : 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,
- Ps 78:55 : 55 He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
- Prov 8:27 : 27 When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
- Prov 8:29 : 29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
- Isa 34:11 : 11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
- Isa 40:22 : 22 [ It is] he that sitteth above 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;
- Zech 2:1-2 : 1 And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
- 2 Cor 10:16 : 16 so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.
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21 Have ye not known? have yet not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
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33 Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?
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5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever.
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24 By what way is the light parted, Or the east wind scattered upon the earth?
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12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days [began], [And] caused the dayspring to know its place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?
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25 Of old didst thou lay the foundation of the earth; And the heavens are the work of thy hands.
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18 Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?
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29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
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16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?
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26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
27 When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
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15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:
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7 Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
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5 Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
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10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of thy hands:
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19 Jehovah by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding he established the heavens.
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12 But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
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8 That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea;
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13 Yea, my hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
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50 Did not my hand make all these things?