Job 38:5

Webster's Bible (1833)

Who determined the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

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  • Isa 40:12 : 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the sky 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 of it is longer than the earth, And broader than the sea.
  • Job 28:25 : 25 He establishes the force of the wind; Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
  • Ps 19:4 : 4 Their voice has gone out through all the earth, Their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
  • Ps 78:55 : 55 He also drove out the nations before them, 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 on the surface of the deep,
  • Prov 8:29 : 29 When he gave to the sea its boundary, That the waters should not violate 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 who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in;
  • Zech 2:1-2 : 1 I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 Then I asked, "Where are you going?" He said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length."
  • 2 Cor 10:16 : 16 so as to preach the Gospel even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

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