Job 38:5

Yahweh Interrogates Job

⁴ “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding,
⁵ Who set its measurements? Since you know.
Or who stretched the line on it?
⁶ “On what were its bases sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone,

Measuring Line

Of The Earth

Job

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,
And marked off the heavens by the span,
And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure,
And weighed the mountains in a balance
And the hills in a pair of scales?

Job 11:9

“Its measure is longer than the earth
And broader than the sea.

Job 28:25

“When He imparted weight to the wind
And meted out the waters by measure,

Psalm 19:4

Their line has gone out through all the earth,
And their utterances to the end of the world.
In them He has placed a tent for the sun,

Psalm 78:55

He also drove out the nations before them
And apportioned them for an inheritance by measurement,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

Proverbs 8:27

“When He established the heavens, I was there,
When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

Proverbs 8:29

When He set for the sea its boundary
So that the water would not transgress His command,
When He marked out the foundations of the earth;

Isaiah 34:11

But pelican and hedgehog will possess it,
And owl and raven will dwell in it;
And He will stretch over it the line of desolation
And the plumb line of emptiness.

Isaiah 40:22

It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Zechariah 2:1-2

Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

2 Corinthians 10:16

so as to preach the gospel even to the regions beyond you, and not to boast in what has been accomplished in the sphere of another.