Job 38:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

Foundations - not sockets, as margin.

Fastened - literally, made to sink, as a foundation-stone let down until it settles firmly in the clay (Job 26:7). Gravitation makes and keeps the earth a sphere.

In Job 38:7, at the founding of Zerubbabel's temple (Ezra 3:10-13), the priests and Levites "sang together in praising the Lord, and many shouted aloud for joy." So hereafter, at the completion of the Church, the temple of the Holy Spirit (Zechariah 4:7); as at its foundation (Luke 2:13-14).

Job 38:6

6 Whereupon are the foundationsc thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;