Job 38:6

6 What holds up the pillars that support the earth? Who laid the cornerstone of the world?

Job 38:6 Meaning and Commentary

Job 38:6

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?
&c.] Or the pillars of it, as Ben Gersom interprets it; see ( Psalms 75:3 ) ; and which Aben Ezra understands of the mountains: but be they what they may, on what can they be fastened or sunk into, when the earth hangs on nothing, and there is nothing visible to support it, nothing but the mighty hand of God?

or who laid the corner stone thereof?
which unites, cements, and keeps the fabric together, and is the ornament and beauty of it; but who can tell what that is? Aben Ezra interprets it of the point or centre of the earth.

Job 38:6 In-Context

4 Were you there when I made the world? If you know so much, tell me about it.

5 Who decided how large it would be? Who stretched the measuring line over it? Do you know all the answers?

6 What holds up the pillars that support the earth? Who laid the cornerstone of the world?

7 In the dawn of that day the stars sang together, and the heavenly beings shouted for joy.

8 Who closed the gates to hold back the sea when it burst from the womb of the earth?