Job 38:5
What does Job 38:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 38:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Who placed its measures--if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest or who hath stretched the line upon it?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Who set the measures thereof — if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
Context
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;
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