Job 38:6
What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
In Context
5Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
7when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:8He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s. He has set the world on them.
Psalms 24:2For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.
Psalms 104:5He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.
Psalms 144:12Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Zechariah 12:1A revelation of the LORD’s word concerning Israel: The LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
2 Peter 3:5For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,
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 →