Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
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Gill's Exposition
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?.... Or the pillars of it, as Ben Gersom interprets it; see Psa 75:3; and which Aben Ezra understands of the mountains: but be they what they may, on…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
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,…
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…
Cambridge Bible
are the foundations fastened Or, were the foundations sunk? All the tenseshere should be put in the simple past.
The creation of the earth is likened to the rearing of a great edifice, whose extent…
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