Job 38:5
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

Young's Literal Translation
Who placed its measures—if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?

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

Hebrew
Who
מִי־ (mî-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

fixed
שָׂ֣ם (śām)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

its measurements?
מְ֭מַדֶּיהָ (mə·mad·de·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 4461: Measurement

Surely
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you know!
תֵדָ֑ע (ṯê·ḏā‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

Or
א֤וֹ (’ōw)
Conjunction
Strong's 176: Desire, if

who
מִֽי־ (mî-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

stretched
נָטָ֖ה (nā·ṭāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5186: To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend

a measuring line
קָּֽו׃ (qāw)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6957: A cord, for, measuring, a rule, a rim, a musical string, accord

across it?
עָלֶ֣יהָ (‘ā·le·hā)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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