Job 38:6

_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), 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 ...

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....

Verse Job 38:6. _WHEREUPON ARE THE FOUNDATIONS THEREOF FASTENED?_] How does it continue to revolve in the immensity of space? What _supports_ it? Has it foundations like a _building_, and is it fastened with a _key-stone_, to keep the mighty fabric in union?...

WHEREUPON ARE THE FOUNDATIONS - Margin, “sockets.” The Hebrew word (אדן _'eden_) means “a basis,” as of a column, or a pedestal; and then also the foundation of a building. The language here is evidently figurative, comparing the earth with an edifice. In building a house, the securing of a proper foundation is essential to its stability; and here God represents himself as rearing the earth on the most permanent and solid basis. The word is not used in the sense of sockets, as it is in the margin. FASTENED - Margin, “made to sink.” The margin rather expresses the sense of the Hebrew word הטבעוּ _hāṭâba‛û_. It is rendered “sink” and “sunk” in Psalms 69:2, Psalms 69:14

CLOSE OF THE CONTROVERSY BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY. EXPOSITION The discourse, by which the Almighty answers Job and rebukes his "friends," occupies four chapters (ch. 38-41.). It is broken into two parts by the interposition of a-short confession on Job's part (Job 40:3). Job 38:1 and Job 39:1 are closely connected, and form a single appeal—a sort of _argumentum ad verecundiam—_to_ _Job's profound ignorance of God's natural government, which incapacitates him from passing judgment upon what is far more incomprehensible and myste

WHEREUPON ARE THE FOUNDATIONS THEREOF FASTENED?.... 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....

V. THE LORD'S TESTIMONY TO JOB AND CONTROVERSY WITH HIM CHAPTER 38:1-38 _ 1. The Lord speaks to Job (Job 38:1)_ 2. The questions of the Lord (Job 38:4) Job 38:1. The voice of man is hushed; the voice of the Lord begins to speak. The Almighty, the Creator, the Lord of All comes now upon the scene. He too, like Elihu, had been the silent listener; He heard Job's complaint and wailing and the babblings of his friends. Elihu's wonderful utterance, inspired by the Lord, was ended. The thunderstorm is on, no doubt a literal storm, the dark clouds gather-- _ Then from the North there comes a golden light._ God appears in wondrous Majesty ...

Yahweh, speaking to Job out of the storm, challenges him to the contest, which he has so often demanded....

FOUNDATIONS. sockets. FASTENED. sunk....

Earth and sea....