Job 38:5New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it?
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who stretched the line upon it?
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Who hath laid the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Who set the measures thereof—if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Who set the measurements thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched out over it a line?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Who placed its measures—if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Who hath layd the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line vpon it?
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Who has laid its measures, if you know? Or who has stretched the line upon it?
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? |
Who
x4310 (4310) Complementמִיmiy{me}
An interrogitive pronoun of persons, as H4100 is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix.
hath laid
7760 {7760} Primeשׂוּםsuwm{soom}
A primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literally, figuratively, inferentially and elliptically).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
the measures
4461 {4461} Primeמֵמַדmemad{may-mad'}
From H4058; a measure.
thereof, if
x3588 (3588) Complementכִּיkiy{kee}
A primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed.
thou knowest?
3045 {3045} Primeידעyada`{yaw-dah'}
A primitive root; to know (properly to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively instruction, designation, punishment, etc.).
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
or
x176 (0176) Complementאוֹ'ow{o}
The first form is presumed to be the 'constructive' or genitival form of the second form which is short for H0185; desire (and so probably in Proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if.
who
x4310 (4310) Complementמִיmiy{me}
An interrogitive pronoun of persons, as H4100 is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix.
hath stretched
5186 {5186} Primeנָטָהnatah{naw-taw'}
A primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of applications.
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
the line
6957 {6957} Primeקַוqav{kav}
From H6960 (compare H6961); a cord (as connecting), especially for measuring; figuratively a rule; also a rim, a musical string or accord.
upon
x5921 (5921) Complementעַל`al{al}
Properly the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural, often with prefix, or as conjugation with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications.
it? |
Job 38:5
_ _ measures — of its proportions. Image from an architect’s plans of a building.
_ _ line — of measurement (Isaiah 28:17). The earth is formed on an all-wise plan. |
Job 38:5
Measures — Who hath prescribed how long and broad and deep it should be. Line — the measuring line to regulate all its dimensions. |
- laid:
Job 11:9 The measure thereof [is] longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Job 28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Proverbs 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Isaiah 40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 40:22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
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- who hath stretched:
Psalms 19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Psalms 78:55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Isaiah 34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Zechariah 2:1-2 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. ... Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what [is] the breadth thereof, and what [is] the length thereof.
2 Corinthians 10:16 To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you, [and] not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
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