Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“On what were its bases sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone,

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

What supports its foundations?
Or who laid its cornerstone

International Standard Version

On what were its bases set? Who laid its corner stone

A Conservative Version

Upon what were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone of it

American Standard Version

Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,

Amplified


“On what were its foundations fastened?
Or who laid its cornerstone,

Bible in Basic English

On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

Darby Translation

Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken? or who laid its corner-stone,

Julia Smith Translation

Upon what were its bases impressed? or who placed its corner-stone?

King James 2000

On what are its foundations fastened? or who laid its cornerstone;

Lexham Expanded Bible

On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,

Modern King James verseion

On what are its bases sunk, or who cast its cornerstone,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Where upon stand the pillars of it? Or, who laid the corner stone?

NET Bible

On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone --

New Heart English Bible

Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

The Emphasized Bible

Whereon were the pedestals thereof sunk? Or who laid the corner stone thereof; -

Webster

Upon what are the foundations of it fastened? or who laid its corner stone;

World English Bible

Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

Youngs Literal Translation

On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אדן 
'eden 
Usage: 56

טבע 
Taba` 
Usage: 10

or who laid
ירא ירה 
Yarah 
Usage: 83

the corner
פּנּה 
Pinnah 
Usage: 30

References

Context Readings

Yahweh Interrogates Job

5 Who determined its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? 6 “On what were its bases sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Cross References

Job 26:7

He stretches out the northern sky over empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing.

Psalm 93:1

Jehovah reigns and he is clothed with majesty. Jehovah has girded himself with strength. The world also is established, that it cannot be moved.

Psalm 104:5

You established the earth upon its foundations, so that it will not be unstable forever.

Psalm 118:22

The stone that the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of all.

Isaiah 28:16

Therefore this is what The Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation. It is a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; whoever believes will not act hastily.

2 Peter 3:5

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God,

Exodus 26:18-25

Make twenty frames for the south side of the inner tent.

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises the poor from the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to set them among the princes. He causes them to inherit a throne of glory (honor). The pillars of the earth are Jehovah's. He sets the world on them.

Psalm 24:2

For He has ordained it upon the seas and decreed it upon the rivers.

Zechariah 12:1

The prophetic utterance of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Jehovah declared: Who stretches forth the heavens? Who lays the foundation of the earth? Who forms the spirit of man within him?

Ephesians 2:20-21

You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus is the chief corner stone.

Psalm 144:12

Let our sons in their youth be as grown-up plants, and our daughters as corner pillars fashioned as for a palace.

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