Job 38:5
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Cross-references
Job 28:25 mentions God measuring out waters, directly paralleling the measuring line imagery in Job 38:5.
Proverbs 8:27 describes Wisdom present when God marked out the horizon, echoing the measuring line in Job.
Isaiah 40:12 asks who measured waters and marked off heavens, a clear parallel to Job's measuring line question.
Zechariah 1:16 explicitly says 'the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem' — directly echoing the creation imagery here of stretching a line.
Isaiah 34:11 uses the same 'stretch the line' imagery for judgment and desolation — contrasting God's creative measurement here.
Psalm 78:55 uses the same 'line' imagery for God apportioning land to Israel — a parallel to God measuring creation here.
Zechariah 2:1 shows a man with a measuring line for Jerusalem — a similar image of measurement but for restoration, not creation.
Zechariah 2:2 continues the measuring line imagery, specifically measuring Jerusalem's dimensions — echoing the creation measurements here.