"Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?"
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To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
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,
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.
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
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.
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:
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
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.
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
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?
By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
Who set the measures thereof -- if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Who hath laid the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Who determined the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?