Job 38:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 38

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⁶Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

Job 38:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
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:
Psalms 118:22
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-11)

For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance even concerning the earth and the sea. Though so near, though so bulky, yet he could give no account of their origination, much less of heaven above or hell beneath, which are at such a distance, or of the several parts of matter which are so minute, and then, least of all, of the divine counsels. I. Concerning the founding of the earth. “I…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. foundations--not “sockets,” as Margin. fastened--literally, “made to sink,” as a foundation-stone let down till it settles firmly in the clay (Job 26:7). Gravitation makes and keeps the earth a sphere.