Job 38:5

Yahweh Interrogates Job

⁴ Where wast thou, when I founded the earth? Tell, if thou knowest understanding! ⁵ Who set the measurements thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched out over it a line? ⁶ Whereon were the pedestals thereof sunk? Or who laid the corner stone thereof; -

Measuring Line

Of The Earth

Job

Isaiah 40:12

Who hath measured, with the hollow of his hand, the waters. Or the heavens with a span, hath meted out, Or hath comprehended, in a measure, the dust of the earth, Or weighed, in scales, the mountains, Or the hills, in a balance?

Job 11:9

Longer than the earth, is the measure thereof, and broader than the sea.

Job 28:25

Making, for the wind, a weight, and, the waters, he proved by measure,

Psalm 19:4

Yet through all the earth, hath gone forth their voice, - and, to the end of the world, their sayings, - For the sun, hath he set up a tent therein;

Psalm 78:55

So he drave out, before them, whole nations, And allotted them, by line, an inheritance, And caused to dwell, in their own homes, the tribes of Israel.

Proverbs 8:27

When he prepared the heavens, there, was I! When he decreed a vault upon the face of the resounding deep;

Proverbs 8:29

When he fixed for the sea its bound, that, the waters, should not go beyond his bidding, when he decreed the foundations of the earth: -

Isaiah 34:11

That the vomiting pelican and the bittern may possess it: And the great owl and the raven, dwell therein; Then will he stretch out over it The line of desolation, and The plummet of emptiness.

Isaiah 40:22

It is he who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, While the inhabitants thereof are, as grass-hoppers, - Who stretcheth forth, as a curtain, the heavens, And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

Zechariah 2:1-2

Then lifted I up mine eyes and looked, and lo! a Man, - and, in his hand, a Measuring Line.

2 Corinthians 10:16

Unto the regions beyond you, to carry the glad-message: not, within another man's limit, as to the things made ready, to boast ourselves.