Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I laid up the foundations of the earth ? tell me if thou hast understanding.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
In Context
3Gird up thy loins like a man : I will ask thee, and answer thou me.
5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Cross References
Job 15:7Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills ?
Psalms 102:25Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.
Psalms 104:5Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever.
Proverbs 8:22The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.
Proverbs 30:4Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? who hath held the wind in his hands? who hath bound up the waters together as in a garment? who hath raised up all the borders of the earth? what is his name, and what is the name of his son, if thou knowest?
Hebrews 1:10And: Thou in the beginning, O Lord, didst found the earth: and the works of thy hands are the heavens.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:2-4
God Answers Out of the Whirlwind. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, 2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? 3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Let us observe here, 1. Who speaks— The Lord, Jehovah, not a created angel, but the eternal Word himself, the second person in the blessed Trinity, for it is he by whom the worlds were made, and that was no other than the Son of God. The same speaks here that… Read the whole commentary →