Their measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.

to appoint a weight for the wind, and mete out the waters by measure.

When He established the heavens, I was there; when He inscribed a circle upon the face of the deep,

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured out the heavens with a span? And who has calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

It is He who sits upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

Their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the ends of the world. In them He has set a tent for the sun,

He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them an inheritance by a surveyor's line, and made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; the owl also, and the raven, shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out over it the line of chaos, and the stones of emptiness.

I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

And I said, Where are you going? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length.

in order to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another's measure of accomplishment.