Job 38:6

6 On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,

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 "Where were you at my laying the foundation of [the] earth? Tell [me], if you possess understanding.

5 Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know. Or who stretched [the] measuring line upon it?

6 On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,

7 when [the] morning stars were singing together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 "Or [who] shut [the] sea in with doors at its bursting, [when] it went out of [the] womb,