Job 38:6
Upon what are her foundation-pillars placed at rest? or who laid her corner-stone:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
In Context
5Who fixed her measurements, if thou knowest it? or who stretched the measuring-line over her?
7When altogether sang the morning stars in gladness, and shouted for joy all the sons of God?
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:8He raiseth up out of the dust the poor, from the dunghill he lifteth up the needy, to set them among nobles, and he assigneth them the throne of glory; for the Lord's are the pillars of the earth, on which he hath set the world.
Psalms 24:2For upon seas hath he founded it, and upon rivers hath he established it.
Psalms 104:5Who hath founded the earth upon her bases, that she should not be moved to all eternity.
Psalms 144:12So that our sons may be like plants, grown up in their youth: our daughters, like corner-pillars, sculptured in the model of a palace.
Zechariah 12:1The prophecy of the word of the Lord concerning Israel, Saith the Lord, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him:
Matthew Henry on Job 38:5-12
The Creation of the World. ( b. c. 1520.) 4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9 When I made the… Read the whole commentary →