4 "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
4 "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
4 Where were you when I created the earth? Tell me, since you know so much!
4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much.
2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
2 for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters.
2 for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.
2 He built it on Ocean foundations, laid it out on River girders.
2 For He has founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the waters.
2 For he laid the earth's foundation on the seas and built it on the ocean depths.
(Read Psalm 24:1-6)
We ourselves are not our own; our bodies, our souls, are not. Even those of the children of men are God's, who know him not, nor own their relation to him. A soul that knows and considers its own nature, and that it must live for ever, when it has viewed the earth and the fulness thereof, will sit down unsatisfied. It will think of ascending toward God, and will ask, What shall I do, that I may abide in that happy, holy place, where he makes his people holy and happy? We make nothing of religion, if we do not make heart-work of it. We can only be cleansed from our sins, and renewed unto holiness, by the blood of Christ and the washing of the Holy Ghost. Thus we become his people; thus we receive blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of our salvation. God's peculiar people shall be made truly and for ever happy. Where God gives righteousness, he designs salvation. Those that are made meet for heaven, shall be brought safe to heaven, and will find what they have been seeking.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 38:4
Commentary on Job 38:4-11
(Read Job 38:4-11)
For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, even concerning the earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God's work, so we need not fear concerning it. The works of his providence, as well as the work of creation, never can be broken; and the work of redemption is no less firm, of which Christ himself is both the Foundation and the Corner-stone. The church stands as firm as the earth.