Job 38:6

6 What were the earth's foundations set on, or who put its cornerstone in place

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 when I made the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.

5 Who marked off how big it should be? Surely you know! Who stretched a ruler across it?

6 What were the earth's foundations set on, or who put its cornerstone in place

7 while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted with joy?

8 "Who shut the doors to keep the sea in when it broke through and was born,