⁵ Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?

¹² Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters? And the heavens by a span hath meted out, And comprehended in a measure the dust of the earth, And hath weighed in scales the mountains, And the hills in a balance?

⁹ Longer than earth `is' its measure, And broader than the sea.

¹⁶ in the `places' beyond you to proclaim good news, not in another's line in regard to the things made ready, to boast;

¹ And I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a man, and in his hand a measuring line.

² And I say, `Whither are thou going?' And he saith unto me, `To measure Jerusalem, to see how much `is' its breadth, and how much its length.'

²² He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants `are' as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.

¹¹ And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.

²⁹ In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,

²⁷ In His preparing the heavens I `am' there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,

⁵⁵ And casteth out nations from before them, And causeth them to fall in the line of inheritance, And causeth the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents,

⁴ Into all the earth hath their line gone forth, And to the end of the world their sayings, For the sun He placed a tent in them,

²⁵ To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.