Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Who set its measures, if thou shalt 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?
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?
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 wort thou in my founding the earth? Announce, if thou knewest understanding. 5 Who set its measures, if thou shalt know? or who stretched the line upon it? 6 Upon what were its bases impressed? or who placed its corner-stone?
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 40:12
Who measured the water in his palm, and measured the heavens with a span, and held the dust of the earth in a third, and weighed the mountains in a balance and the bills in scales?
Job 11:9
Its measure long above the earth, and broad above the sea.
Job 28:25
To make the weight for the wind; and he weighed the waters by measure.
Psalm 19:4
Their line went forth into all the earth, and their words into the ends of the habitable globe. In them he set a tent for the sun.
Psalm 78:55
And he will cast out the nations from their face, and he will divide them by lot in the measure of inheritance, and he will cause the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Proverbs 8:27
In his preparing the heavens I was there: in his inscribing a circle upon the face of the deep:
Proverbs 8:29
In his setting his law to the sea, and the waters shall not pass by his mouth; in his making firm the foundations of the earth:
Isaiah 34:11
And the pelican and the hedgehog shall possess it; the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and he stretched out upon it the line of desolation and the stones of emptiness.
Isaiah 40:22
He sitting upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants as locusts; he stretching out the heavens as fine cloth, and he will extend them as a tent to dwell in:
Zechariah 2:1-2
I shall lift up mine eyes and see, and behold, a man, and in his hand a cord of measure.
2 Corinthians 10:16
To announce the good hews in things beyond you, not in another's rule to boast for things prepared.