Job 38:5
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath 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 the weight for the winds; and he weigheth 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 cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
- Prov 8:27 : 27 When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
- Prov 8:29 : 29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
- Isa 34:11 : 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
- Isa 40:22 : 22 [It is] he that sitteth upon 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 ¶ I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, 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 To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you, [and] not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
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21 Have ye not known? have ye 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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12 ¶ Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place;
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25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens [are] the work of thy hands.
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18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, [which is] strong, [and] as a molten looking glass?
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29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
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10 And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,
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26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
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15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
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7 [Art] thou the first man [that] was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
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4 Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
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10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
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19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
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5 ¶ Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
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12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding?
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8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
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13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: [when] I call unto them, they stand up together.
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50 Hath not my hand made all these things?