Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 40:12

"Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?" — Isaiah 40:12 (ASV)

Who has measured...?—Another section opens, expanding the thought of the eternal majesty of Jehovah, as contrasted with the vanity of the idols, or “no-gods,” of the heathen. The whole passage in form and thought supplies once more a parallelism with Job 38:4; Job 38:25; Job 38:37. The whole image is divinely anthropomorphic. The Creator is the great Master Craftsman of the universe, ordering all things, like a human craftsman, by number and weight and measure. The mountains of the earth are as dust in the scales of the Infinite.