Verse 5

Who determined its measurements, if you know? Or who stretched the line upon it?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 40:12 : 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured the heavens 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 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
  • Job 28:25 : 25 To make a weight for the winds, and he measures the waters by measure.
  • Ps 19:4 : 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tabernacle for the sun,
  • Ps 78:55 : 55 He cast out the nations 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 boundary upon the face of the depth;
  • Prov 8:29 : 29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not go beyond his command; when he appointed the foundations of the earth,
  • Isa 34:11 : 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl 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 who sits upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
  • Zech 2:1-2 : 1 I lifted my eyes again and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 Then I said, 'Where are you going?' And he said to me, 'To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.'
  • 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.