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Job 38:4 KJV

Job · chapter 38 · verse 4

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.Job 38:4 · King James Version

Job 38:4 in context

2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

3Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

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

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Commentary

For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance even concerning the earth and the sea. Though so near, though so bulky, yet he could give no account of their origination, much less of heaven above or hell beneath, which are at such a distance, or of the several parts of matter which are so minute, and then,…

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-11

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