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Job 38:5

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38:5Who set its measurements—if7 you know—

or who stretched a measuring line across it?

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Footnotes

  1. 7 The particle ךּ (ki) is taken here for a conditional clause, “if you know” (see §159.dd). Others take it as “surely” with a biting irony.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Who determined its measurements—surely you know!

Or who stretched the line upon it?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!

Who stretched a measuring line across it?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know!

Who stretched a measuring line across it?

NLTNew Living Translation

Who determined its dimensions

and stretched out the surveying line?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know.

Or who stretched the measuring line upon it?

KJV 1900King James Version

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest?

Or who hath stretched the line upon it?