Job 38:5 Cross References - LEB

⁵ Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know. Or who stretched the measuring line upon it?

⁹ Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.

²⁵ _⌊When he gave_⌋* weight to the wind and he apportioned the waters by measure,

⁴ Yet in all the world their line* goes out, and their words to the end of the world. In them* he has pitched a tent for the sun,

⁵⁵ And he drove out nations before them and allocated them for an inheritance by boundary line, and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

²⁷ _⌊when he established_⌋* the heavens, there I was, _⌊when he drew_⌋* a circle upon the face of the deep,

²⁹ _⌊when he assigned_⌋* his limits to the sea, that waters shall not transgress his _⌊command_⌋,* _⌊when he marked_⌋* the foundations of the earth,

¹¹ But* the large bird and the hedgehog shall take possession of it, and the owl and the raven shall live in it. And he shall stretch the measuring line of confusion out over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

¹² Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, comprehended the dust of the earth in a third of a measure and weighed out the mountains in the scales,* and the hills in a balance?

²² He is the one who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; the one who stretches out the heavens like a veil and spreads them out like a tent to live in,

¹ And I _⌊looked up_⌋* and I saw, and look, a man, and in his hand was a measuring rope! ² And I asked, "Where are you going?" And he answered me, "To measure Jerusalem to see what is its width and what is its length."

¹⁶ so that we may proclaim the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast in the things accomplished in the area assigned to someone else.