Job 38:4
Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare, if you have known understanding.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
In Context
3Now gird your loins as a man, || And I ask you, and you cause Me to know.
5Who placed its measures—if you know? Or who has stretched out a line on it?
Cross References
Job 15:7Are you the first man born? And were you formed before the heights?
Psalms 102:25You founded the earth before time, || And the heavens [are] the work of Your hands.
Psalms 104:5He has founded earth on its bases, || It is not moved for all time and forever.
Proverbs 8:22YHWH possessed me—the beginning of His way, || Before His works since then.
Proverbs 30:4Who went up to the heavens, and comes down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What [is] His Name? And what [is] His Son’s Name? Surely you know!
Hebrews 1:10and, “You, LORD, founded the earth at the beginning, || And the heavens are a work of Your hands.
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 →