Job 38:5

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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 epared 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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