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Job 38

Job 38:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Who hath laid
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
the measures
memad (Hebrew #4461)
a measure
KJV usage: measure.
Pronounce: may-mad'
Origin: from 4058
thereof, if thou knowest
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
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.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
? or who hath stretched
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
the line
qav (Hebrew #6957)
from 6960 (compare 6961); a cord (as connecting), especially for measuring; figuratively, a rule; also a rim, a musical string or accord
KJV usage: line. Compare 6978.
Pronounce: kav
Origin: or qav {kawv}
upon it?

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Job 11:9• 9The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. (Job 11:9)
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Job 28:25• 25In making a weight for the wind, and meting out the waters by measure, (Job 28:25)
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Prov. 8:27• 27When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he ordained the circle upon the face of the deep; (Prov. 8:27)
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Isa. 40:12,22• 12Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with his span, and grasped the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?
 22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; (Isa. 40:12,22)
who hath stretched.
Psa. 19:4• 4Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their language to the extremity of the world. In them hath he set a tent for the sun, (Psa. 19:4)
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Psa. 78:55• 55And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. (Psa. 78:55)
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Isa. 34:11• 11And the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the great owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And he shall stretch out upon it the line of waste, and the plummets of emptiness. (Isa. 34:11)
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Zech. 2:1‑2• 1And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
 2And I said, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. (Zech. 2:1‑2)
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2 Cor. 10:16• 16to announce the glad tidings to that which is beyond you, not to be boasting in another's rule of things made ready to hand. (2 Cor. 10:16)
• Present day knowledge can talk learnedly of nebulae and the solar system, of attraction and the laws of gravitation, and explain that the reciprocal action of these laws has given the earth its form and stable relation with heavenly bodies....But law means a Law-giver. Who has established these laws? How do they act unfailingly? Revelation, and that alone, gives the answer— “By Him all things consist” (Col. 1:17). (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)
• Where was Job, where was man, when the Lord established and set in motion these laws and principles? The form of the question met Job’s knowledge at that time; it equally meets man’s advanced knowledge at the present. Indeed, its form was calculated to lead on his thought to wider fields of truth. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Who set the measures thereof—if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?