Top 10 Lessons from Job 38 How do cosmic voids contradict a recently created universe? Proverbs 8:27: When it says wisdom was there at the making of the heavens, how does this compare with modern cosmology's timing of the universe's formation?

5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Read full chapter

38 Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: with words without knowledge? and you shall answer me. 4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. 5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? and all the angels[a] shouted for joy?

The LORD Challenges Job. 1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: 2 “Who is this who obscures My counsel . by words without knowledge? a. 3 Now brace yourself b like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me. c. 4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. 5 Who ...

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 38:4-11 For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, even concerning the earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God's work, so we need not fear concerning it.

5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

Encouraging and challenging you to seek intimacy with God every day. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

He laid them out in his divine mind, and laid them forth by his divine power; who does all things by weight and measure. He fixed the dimensions of the earth, how long, how thick, and how broad it should be; he settled the borders and boundaries of it.

38:5 Measures - Who hath prescribed how long and broad and deep it should be. Line - the measuring line to regulate all its dimensions. View more Job 38:5 meaning, interpretation, and commentary...

Verse Job 38:5. Who hath laid the measures thereof — Who hath adjusted its polar and equatorial distances from the centre? Who hath stretched the line — Who hath formed its zones and its great circles, and adjusted the whole of its magnitude and gravity to the orbit in which it was to move, as well as its distance from that great centre ...