Job 38:6
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
Job 38:6 in other translations
| BSB | On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone, |
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| WEB | What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone, |
| ASV | Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof, |
| YLT | On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone? |
| DARBY | Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken? or who laid its corner-stone, |
| BBE | On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone, |
| Webster | Upon what are the foundations of it fastened? or who laid its corner stone; |
What does Job 38:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 38:4-11
For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, even concerning the earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God's work, so we need not fear concerning it. The works of his providence, as well as the work of creation, never can be broken; and the work of redemption is no less firm, of which Christ himself is both the Foundation and the Corner-stone. The church stands as firm as the earth.
Job 38:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 38:6
- Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
- Psalms 104:5
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
- Psalms 93:1
The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
- Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
- 2 Peter 3:5
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
- Zechariah 12:1
The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
- Psalms 118:22
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
- Psalms 144:12
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
- Psalms 24:2
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
- Exodus 26:18-25
And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward. And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons. And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards: And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. …
- Ephesians 2:20-21
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
- 1 Samuel 2:8
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.
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Context
- Job 38:5
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
- Job 38:6
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
- Job 38:7
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Sobre qué están fundadas sus basas? ¿ó quién puso su piedra angular, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Sur quoi ses bases sont-elles assises, ou qui a placé sa pierre angulaire, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | In was wurden ihre Grundfesten eingesenkt? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Super quo bases illius solidatæ sunt? aut quis demisit lapidem angularem ejus, |