Job 38:4

◄“Where were you/Were you there with me► long ago when I ◄laid the foundations of/created► the earth? Since you know so much, tell me where you were at that time.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

In Context

3I want to ask you some questions, so, just like men prepare themselves for a difficult task [MET], prepare to answer my questions.

5Do you know how I decided how large the earth would be? Do you know who stretched a measuring tape around the earth? Surely since you think that you know so much, you should know that!

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Cross References

Job 15:7“Tell me do you know more than everyone else because you think that you are the first person who was ever born? [SAR, RHQ] Were you born before the hills were created?

Psalms 102:25You created the world long ago, and you made ◄the heavens/everything in the sky► with your own hands.

Psalms 104:5You placed the world firmly on its foundation so that it can never be moved/shaken.

Proverbs 8:22Yahweh created me, wisdom, when he began to create the world; he created me to do my work before he created anything else.

Proverbs 30:4But let me say this: No one [RHQ] has ascended to heaven to find out what God is like and returned to tell us. No one [RHQ] has gathered/held the wind in his hand. No one [RHQ] has wrapped the water in the ocean in a piece of cloth, and no one [RHQ] has established the boundaries of the earth. If you know who has done those things, tell me [RHQ] his name, and the names of his children [SAR]! But you do not know who has done those things, so you cannot speak with authority about what God is like.

Hebrews 1:10And we also know that his Son is superior to angels because in the Scriptures the Psalmist wrote that someone said to God’s Son, Lord, it was you who created the earth in the beginning. You also made the rest of the universe (OR, the things in the sky) [MTY].

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 →

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