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Job 38:5

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

KJV

Quis posuit mensuras ejus, si nosti ? vel quis tetendit super eam lineam ?

Vulgate

τίς ἔθετο τὰ μέτρα αὐτῆς, εἰ οἶδας; ἢ τίς ὁ ἐπαγαγὼν σπαρτίον ἐπ’ αὐτῆς;

LXX

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

ASV

מִי שָׂ֣ם מְ֭מַדֶּי/הָ כִּ֣י תֵדָ֑ע א֤וֹ מִֽי נָטָ֖ה עָלֶ֣י/הָ קָּֽו

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

א֣וֹ
'v
conjunction · 311×
הָ
h
pronoun · 1×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
יָּ֥שֶׂם
yshm
verb · 581×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
נָטִ֤יתִי
ntyty
verb · 216×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
קָ֔ו
qv
noun · 20×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 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.
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 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
  • Isa 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:
  • Job 11:9 — The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
  • Job 28:25 — To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
  • Prov 8:27 — When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
  • Prov 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:
  • Ps 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,
  • Ps 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.
  • Zech 1:16 — Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
  • Zech 2:1 — I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.