Job 38:5
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Job 38:5 in other translations
| BSB | Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it? |
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| WEB | Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it? |
| ASV | Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it? |
| YLT | Who placed its measures--if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line? |
| DARBY | Who set the measures thereof — if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it? |
| BBE | By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it? |
| Webster | Who hath laid the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? |
What does Job 38:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 38:4-11
For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, even concerning the earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God's work, so we need not fear concerning it. The works of his providence, as well as the work of creation, never can be broken; and the work of redemption is no less firm, of which Christ himself is both the Foundation and the Corner-stone. The church stands as firm as the earth.
Job 38:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 38:5
- Isaiah 40:12
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
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
- Zechariah 2:1-2
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. 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.
- Proverbs 8:27
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
- Isaiah 40:22
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:
- Psalms 78:55
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.
- Job 28:25
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
- Isaiah 34:11
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.
- Psalms 19:4
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,
- 2 Corinthians 10:16
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.
- Proverbs 8:29
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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Context
- Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
- Job 38:5
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
- Job 38:6
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
Job 38:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Quién ordenó sus medidas, si lo sabes? ¿ó quién extendió sobre ella cordel? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Qui lui a établi sa mesure, – si tu le sais? Ou qui a étendu le cordeau sur elle? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wer hat ihre Maße bestimmt, wenn du es weißt? Oder wer hat über sie die Meßschnur gezogen? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quis posuit mensuras ejus, si nosti? vel quis tetendit super eam lineam? |