Parallel Verses
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?
A Conservative Version
Who determined the measures of it, if thou know? Or who stretched the line upon 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 you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
5
Or who stretched the line on it?
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 40:12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
Job 11:9
Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.
Job 28:25
When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned the waters by measure,
Psalm 19:4
Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
Psalm 78:55
He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Proverbs 8:27
When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
Proverbs 8:29
when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
Isaiah 34:11
But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, 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 like a tent to dwell in;
Zechariah 2:1-2
And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand!
2 Corinthians 10:16
so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another's area of influence.