Job 38:6

What supports the pillars on which the earth rests? When the stars that shine early in the morning sang together, and someone put in place the stone that causes the earth to stay in its place, and all the angels shouted joyfully when they saw that happening, who laid that cornerstone? Did you?

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

In Context

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

1 Samuel 2:8Sometimes you lift poor people up so that they are no longer despondent, sitting in the dust, or sitting on heaps of ashes; you cause them to sit next to princes; you cause them to sit on chairs/thrones where people who are highly honored sit. Yahweh, you are the one who laid the foundations of the earth, and you have set the whole world on those foundations.

Psalms 24:2because he caused the ground to be above the water, above the water that was deep below the surface of the earth.

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

Psalms 144:12I wish/hope that our young sons will grow up to be like strong plants [SIM], and I wish/hope that our daughters will grow up to be straight and tall like the pillars [SIM] that stand in the corners of palaces.

Zechariah 12:1This is a message from Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh is the one who stretched out the sky, who created the earth, and who ◄gave life to humans/caused humans to be alive►. This is what he says:

2 Peter 3:5They will say that because they ◄deliberately overlook the fact/have decided to ignore what they know► that God, by commanding long ago that it should be so, caused the heavens to exist, and he caused the earth to appear out of water and to be separate from the water.

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 →

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