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 earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
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, or with the span of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance of the scale?
Job 11:9
Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
Job 28:25
When he gave the wind its force and measured the water in the sea,
Psalm 19:4
Yet, their measuring line (rule) has gone out into the entire world, their message to the ends of the earth. He has set up a tent in the heavens for the sun.
Psalm 78:55
He drove nations out of their way and gave them the land of the nations as their inheritance. He settled the tribes of Israel in their own tents.
Proverbs 8:27
When he prepared the heavens, I was there. When he circled the face of the deep:
Proverbs 8:29
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his command, when he appointed the foundations of the earth,
Isaiah 34:11
Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. Porcupines and crows will live there. He will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of destruction over it.
Isaiah 40:22
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Zechariah 2:1-2
I lifted up my eyes and saw, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2 Corinthians 10:16
Let us preach the good news to the parts beyond you. Let us not boast in someone else's territory in concerning things ready for our hand.