Job 38:6

6 Upon what are its foundations founded? Or who laid its corner stone;

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 wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Cause me to know, if thou hast understanding.

5 Who ordered its dimensions, if thou knowest? Or who has stretched the line upon it?

6 Upon what are its foundations founded? Or who laid its corner stone;

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

8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?