'Foundation' in the Bible

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."

that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,