Job 38:5

5. If thou knowest Rather, That thou shouldst know. This sounds the key-note to the whole series of questions the folly of man’s assuming to comprehend the work of God. The puniness of the human mind will be set forth, just as a molehill finds its true dimensions beneath the shadow of a mountain. Each question conveys an oblique allusion to Job for his folly in arraigning an incomprehensible God. Job 9:35; Job 13:18; Job 13:22; Job 23:3-7; Job 31:35-37. Stretched the line Like a wise master-builder, with measuring-line he lays out the world. “Behold,” says Samuel Wesley, “the architecture of God! The terms are those of the geometer or builder. The bases, the hinges, the lines, the perpendicular, the corner-stone, the measures.”