Devine Scripture

Job 38:5

Job chapter 38 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?

Context

v.4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.

v.5This passage

v.6Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Zechariah 2:1

    And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

  • Job 28:25

    To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.

  • 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,

  • Proverbs 8:27

    When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,

  • 2 Corinthians 10:16

    so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, and not to glory in another’s province in regard of things ready to our hand.

  • Proverbs 8:29

    When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;