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Job Chapter 38 verse 5 Holy Bible

ASV Job 38:5

Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?
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BBE Job 38:5

By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
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DARBY Job 38:5

Who set the measures thereof -- if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
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KJV Job 38:5

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
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WBT Job 38:5

Who hath laid the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
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WEB Job 38:5

Who determined the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
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YLT Job 38:5

Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Who determined the measures thereof? Everything in creation is orderly, measured, predetermined, governed by law and will The actual weight of the planets is fixed by Divine wisdom, with a view to the stability and enduringness of the solar system (comp. Isaiah 40:12). If thou knowest; literally, for thou knowest - an anticipation of the lofty irony which comes out so remarkably in ver. 21. Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Human builders determine the dimensions of their constructions by means of a measuring-line (Ezekiel 40:3-49, etc.). The writer carries out his metaphor of a building by supposing a measuring-rod to have been used at the creation of the earth also. Some find a trace of the idea in Genesis 1:9, where they translate קָווּ הַמַּיִם, "Let the waters be marked out with a line."

Ellicott's Commentary