Job 38:5

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Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the measuring line across it?

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  • Isa 40:12 : 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?
  • Job 11:9 : 9 Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
  • Job 28:25 : 25 When He gave weight to the wind and measured the waters by measure,
  • Ps 19:4 : 4 There is no speech; there are no words; their voice is not heard.
  • Ps 78:55 : 55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance with a measuring line; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
  • Prov 8:27 : 27 When He established the heavens, I was there; when He marked out the horizon on the face of the deep.
  • Prov 8:29 : 29 When He set the boundary for the sea so the waters would not overstep His command, and when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
  • Isa 34:11 : 11 The pelican and the hedgehog will possess it, the owl and the raven will dwell there. He will stretch over it a measuring line of chaos and stones of emptiness.
  • Isa 40:22 : 22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
  • Zech 2:1-2 : 1 I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns. 2 I asked the angel who was speaking with me, 'What are these?' And he said to me, 'These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.'
  • 2 Cor 10:16 : 16 so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast in work already done in another person's area.

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  • Isa 40:21-22
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    21Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundations of the earth?

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