Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 5. Who hath laid the measures thereof ] Who hath adjusted its polar and equatorial distances from the center? Who hath stretched the line ] Who hath formed its zones and its great circles, and adjusted the whole of its magnitude and gravity to the orbit in which it was to move, as well as its distance from that great center about which it was to revolve? These questions show the difficulty of the subject; and that there was an unfathomable depth of counsel and design in the formation of the earth.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 4-11 - For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, eve concerning the earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God' work, so we need not fear concerning it. The works of his providence as well as the work of creation, never can be broken; and the work of redemption is no less firm, of which Christ himself is both the Foundation and the Corner-stone. The church stands as firm as the earth.
Original Hebrew מי4310 שׂם7760 ממדיה4461 כי3588 תדע3045 או176 מי4310 נטה5186 עליה5921 קו׃6957
