Job 38:4
Where were you when I founded the earth? tell me now, if you have knowledge,
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
In Context
3Gird your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.
5who set the measures of it, if you know? or who stretched a line upon it?
Cross References
Job 15:7What! are you the first man that was born? or were you established before the hills?
Psalms 104:5Remember his wonderful works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth; 1
Proverbs 8:22The Lord made me the beginning of his ways for his works.
Proverbs 30:4Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? who has gathered the winds in his + 30:4 Or, fold of his robe. bosom? who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? who has dominion of all the ends of the earth? what is his name? or what is the name of his children?
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 →