5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
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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?
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. …
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
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,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-11)For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance even concerning the earth and the sea. Though so near, though so bulky, yet he could give no account of their origination, much less of heaven above or hell beneath, which are at such a distance, or of the several parts of matter which are so minute, and then, least of all, of the divine counsels. I. Concerning the founding of the earth. “I…
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