Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?
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?
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
4 Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding. 5 Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line? 6 On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 40:12
Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters? And the heavens by a span hath meted out, And comprehended in a measure the dust of the earth, And hath weighed in scales the mountains, And the hills in a balance?
Job 11:9
Longer than earth is its measure, And broader than the sea.
Job 28:25
To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.
Psalm 19:4
Into all the earth hath their line gone forth, And to the end of the world their sayings, For the sun He placed a tent in them,
Psalm 78:55
And casteth out nations from before them, And causeth them to fall in the line of inheritance, And causeth the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents,
Proverbs 8:27
In His preparing the heavens I am there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,
Proverbs 8:29
In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,
Isaiah 34:11
And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.
Isaiah 40:22
He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.
Zechariah 2:1-2
And I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a man, and in his hand a measuring line.
2 Corinthians 10:16
in the places beyond you to proclaim good news, not in another's line in regard to the things made ready, to boast;