Job 38:5
By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
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- Isa 40:12 : 12 In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?
- Job 11:9 : 9 Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.
- Job 28:25 : 25 When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;
- Ps 19:4 : 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,
- Ps 78:55 : 55 Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.
- Prov 8:27 : 27 When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:
- Prov 8:29 : 29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:
- Isa 34:11 : 11 But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land.
- Isa 40:22 : 22 It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.
- Zech 2:1-2 : 1 And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns. 2 And I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have sent Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in flight.
- 2 Cor 10:16 : 16 So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.
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