making a weight for the winds, and measuring out the waters by measure.

“Who determined the measurements [of the earth], if you know?
Or who stretched the [measuring] line on it?

Under shades he lieth down, In a secret place of reed and mire.

Dost thou put a reed in his nose? And with a thorn pierce his jaw?

Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?

They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

Its measure [is] longer than [the] earth and broader than [the] sea.

He troubleth me so with the tempest, and woundeth me out of measure without a cause.

Thou huntest me out, being in heaviness, as it were a lion, and troublest me out of measure.

And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,