Job 38:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,”
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BSBPD
“On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 38:6 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 26:18Construct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,
- 1 Samuel 2:8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- Job 26:7He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
- Psalms 24:2For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.
- Psalms 93:1The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty; the LORD has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
- Psalms 104:5He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.
- Psalms 118:22The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
- Psalms 144:12Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
- Isaiah 28:16So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.
- Zechariah 12:1This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:
- Ephesians 2:20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
- 2 Peter 3:5But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,
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