Job 38:6

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Job 38:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

5 Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

7 while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

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Job 26:7

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

1 Samuel 2:8

He 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.

Psalms 24:2

For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

Psalms 93:1

The 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 104:5

He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.

Zechariah 12:1

This 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:

2 Peter 3:5

But 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,

Exodus 26:18

Construct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26:19

with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

Exodus 26:20

For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, make twenty frames

Exodus 26:21

and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.

Exodus 26:22

Make six frames for the rear of the tabernacle, the west side,

Exodus 26:23

and two frames for the two back corners of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26:24

coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. These will serve as the two corners.

Exodus 26:25

So there are to be eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.

Psalms 118:22

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Psalms 144:12

Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Isaiah 28:16

So 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.

Ephesians 2:20

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

Ephesians 2:21

In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.