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Job 38:5
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Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know!Who stretched a measuring line across it?
Who determined the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
Who marked off how big it should be? Surely you know! Who stretched a ruler across it?
Who set its measurements—if you know— or who stretched a measuring line across it?
"Who determined the measurements [of the earth], if you know? Or who stretched the [measuring] line on it?
Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the measuring line over it?
Who determined the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:
Who set its measurements? Since you know.Or who stretched the line on it?
Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
Do you know who determined its dimensions or who stretched the measuring line across it?
Who set the measures thereof—if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
And who decided how big the earth should be? Who measured it with a measuring line?
Who has laid its measures, if you know? Or who has stretched the line upon it?
Who decided how large it would be? Who stretched the measuring line over it? Do you know all the answers?
Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know. Or who stretched the measuring line upon it?
Who has set its dimensions, for you know? Or who has stretched a line on it?
Who hath measured it, knowest thou? Or, who hath spred ye lyne vpon it?
Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?
By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?
Who hath layd the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line vpon it?
Who hath measured it, knowest thou? or who hath spread the lyne vpon it?
who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who stretched the line upon it?
Who settide mesures therof, if thou knowist? ethir who stretchide forth a lyne theronne?
Who determined the measures thereof, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
Who hath laid the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
Who determined its dimensions and stretched out the surveying line?
Who decided how big it was to be, since you know? Who looked to see if it was as big as it should be?
Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
Who set the measurements thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched out over it a line?
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Who determined its measurements--surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?
Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
laid: Job 11:9, Job 28:25, Proverbs 8:27, Isaiah 40:12, Isaiah 40:22
who hath stretched: Psalms 19:4, Psalms 78:55, Isaiah 34:11, Zechariah 2:1, Zechariah 2:2, 2 Corinthians 10:16
Reciprocal: Zechariah 1:16 - and
Cross-References
Judah did not want the same thing to happen to his son Shelah, and he told Tamar, "Go home to your father and live there as a widow until my son Shelah is grown." So Tamar went to live with her father.
"Those are mine!" Judah admitted. "She's a better person than I am, because I broke my promise to let her marry my son Shelah." After this, Judah never slept with her again.
Judah also had a son named Shelah, whose descendants included Jokim and the people of the town of Cozeba, as well as Er who settled the town of Lecah and Laadah who settled the town of Mareshah. The people who lived in Beth-Ashbea were also descendants of Shelah, and they were experts in weaving cloth. Shelah was the ancestor of Joash and Saraph, two men who married Moabite women and then settled near Bethlehem—but these family records are very old.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest?.... Did God or a creature? The Lord, no doubt. He laid them out in his divine mind, and laid them forth by his divine power; who does all things by weight and measure. He fixed the dimensions of the earth, how long, how thick, and how broad it should be; he settled the borders and boundaries of it. This Job might know that the Lord did; but he laid them, and what they are that are laid, he knew not. Mathematicians pretend to give us the circumference and diameter of the earth; but in their accounts are not agreed, but widely differ; which shows they are at no certainty about them e; and Job and the men of his age might be still less knowing: though the words may be rendered, "for thou knowest" f; surely such a knowing man as thou art must needs know this and so are a severe sarcasm upon him;
or who hath stretched the line upon it? The measuring line being formed according to rule, with exact symmetry and proportion. This may be the same with the circle of the earth, and the compass set upon the face of the deep or terraqueous globe, Proverbs 8:27. And with the same exactness and just proportion are the ways and works of Providence, which Job ought to have acquiesced in as being well and wisely done.
e The mathematicians in Aristotle's time reckoned the breadth of the earth a little less than forty myriads of furlongs, and the length of it seventy myriads. Aristot. de Mundo, c. 3. Vid. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 108, 109. According to the moderns, the circumference of the earth is 25,031.5 of our statute miles, and its diameter 7967 such miles. See Chamber's Dictionary on the word "Earth". f כי "quadoquidem", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "quia", Michaelis; "nam", Schultens; so Broughton.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Who hath laid the measures thereof - That is, as an architect applies his measures when he rears a house.
If thou knowest - Or rather, “for thou knowest.” The expression is wholly ironical, and is designed to rebuke Job’s pretensions of being able to explain the divine administration.
Or who hath stretched the line upon it - As a carpenter uses a line to mark out his work; see the notes at Isaiah 28:17. The earth is represented as a building, the plan of which was laid out beforehand, and which was then made according to the sketch of the architect. It is not, therefore, the work of chance or fate. It is laid out and constructed according to a wise plan, and in a method evincing infinite skill.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 38:5. Who hath laid the measures thereof — Who hath adjusted its polar and equatorial distances from the centre?
Who hath stretched the line — Who hath formed its zones and its great circles, and adjusted the whole of its magnitude and gravity to the orbit in which it was to move, as well as its distance from that great centre about which it was to revolve? These questions show the difficulty of the subject; and that there was an unfathomable depth of counsel and design in the formation of the earth.
