Job 38:5

New English Translation

⁵Who set its measurements—if^[a] you know—
or who stretched a measuring line across it?

Job 38:5 tn The particle כִּי (ki) is taken here for a conditional clause, “if you know” (see GKC 498 §159.dd). Others take it as “surely” with a biting irony.

Job 38:5

King James Version

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

⁵Who marked off its dimensions?^(A) Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line^(B) across it?

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