Job 38:6

6 What was it built on? Who laid its most important 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 were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you know.

5 Who measured it? I am sure you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 What was it built on? Who laid its most important stone?

7 When it happened, the morning stars sang together. All of the angels shouted with joy.

8 "Who created the ocean? Who caused it to be born?