Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.
New American Standard Bible
Tell Me, if you
King James Version
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Holman Bible
Tell Me, if you have
International Standard Version
"Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth? Tell me, since you're so informed!
A Conservative Version
Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou have understanding.
American Standard Version
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
Amplified
“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know and have understanding.
Bible in Basic English
Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.
Darby Translation
Where wast thou when I founded the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
Julia Smith Translation
Where wort thou in my founding the earth? Announce, if thou knewest understanding.
King James 2000
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Where were you at my laying the foundation of [the] earth? Tell [me], if you possess understanding.
Modern King James verseion
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell if you have understanding!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Where wast thou, when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell plainly if thou hast understanding.
NET Bible
"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!
New Heart English Bible
"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
The Emphasized Bible
Where wast thou, when I founded the earth? Tell, if thou knowest understanding!
Webster
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
World English Bible
"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:4
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
3 Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know. 4 Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding. 5 Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?
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Cross References
Psalm 104:5
He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.
Proverbs 30:4
Who went up to heaven, and cometh down? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What is His name? and what His son's name? Surely thou knowest!
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth
Psalm 102:25
Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands are the heavens.
Proverbs 8:22
Jehovah possessed me -- the beginning of His way, Before His works since then.
Proverbs 8:29-30
In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,
Hebrews 1:2
in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;
Hebrews 1:10
and, 'Thou, at the beginning, Lord, the earth didst found, and a work of thy hands are the heavens;