Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell it, if thou hast any understanding [of it].
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
In Context
3Do but gird up like a mighty man thy loins: and I will ask thee, and do thou inform me.
5Who fixed her measurements, if thou knowest it? or who stretched the measuring-line over her?
Cross References
Job 15:7Wast thou born as the first man? or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
Psalms 102:25(102:26) In olden times didst thou lay the foundations of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Psalms 104:5Who hath founded the earth upon her bases, that she should not be moved to all eternity.
Proverbs 8:22The Lord created me as the beginning of his way, the first of his works from the commencement,
Proverbs 30:4Who was it that ascended into heaven, and came down again? who gathered the wind in his fists? who bound the waters in a garment? who set up all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou knowest it?”
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 →