Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Who determined the measures of it, if thou know? Or who stretched the line upon it?
New American Standard Bible
Or who stretched the line on it?
King James Version
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Holman Bible
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
International Standard Version
Who set its measurement? Am I to assume you know? Who stretched a boundary line over it?
American Standard Version
Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?
Amplified
“Who determined the measurements [of the earth], if you know?
Or who stretched the [measuring] line on it?
Bible in Basic English
By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
Darby Translation
Who set the measures thereof if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
Julia Smith Translation
Who set its measures, if thou shalt know? or who stretched the line upon it?
King James 2000
Who has determined the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know. Or who stretched [the] measuring line upon it?
Modern King James verseion
Who has set its measurements, for you know? Or who has stretched the line on it?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who hath measured it, knowest thou? Or, who hath spread the line upon it?
NET Bible
Who set its measurements -- if you know -- or who stretched a measuring line across it?
New Heart English Bible
Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
The Emphasized Bible
Who set the measurements thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched out over it a line?
Webster
Who hath laid the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
World English Bible
Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
Youngs Literal Translation
Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
4 Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou have understanding. 5 Who determined the measures of it, if thou know? Or who stretched the line upon it? 6 Upon what were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone of it
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Cross References
Isaiah 40:12
Who has 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 balance?
Job 11:9
The measure of it is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Job 28:25
to make a weight for the wind. Yea, he distributes the waters by measure.
Psalm 19:4
Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tabernacle for the sun,
Psalm 78:55
He also drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Proverbs 8:27
When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
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,
Isaiah 34:11
But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it. And the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
Isaiah 40:22
[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in,
Zechariah 2:1-2
And I lifted up my eyes, and looked. And, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2 Corinthians 10:16
in order to preach the good-news beyond you, not to boast in another measure, in things prepared.