Bible verse

Job 38:6

On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

Job 38:6 · BSB

Job 38:6 in context

The verses around it, from Job 38.

2 “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

3 Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

5 Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

7 while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

9 when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

10 when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

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Job 38:6 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,

ERV

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

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