Job 38:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:5 : 5 He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;
  • Prov 30:4 : 4 Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?
  • Heb 1:10 : 10 You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:
  • Heb 1:2 : 2 But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;
  • Prov 8:22 : 22 The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.
  • Prov 8:29-30 : 29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth: 30 Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;
  • Gen 1:1 : 1 At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
  • Ps 102:25 : 25 In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Job 38:5-8
    4 verses
    86%

    5 By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

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

    7 When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

    8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

  • Job 38:18-22
    5 verses
    82%

    18 Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

    19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

    20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

    21 No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

    22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

  • Job 38:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

    3 Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

  • Job 15:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7 Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

    8 Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

  • Job 20:4
    78%

    4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

  • Isa 40:21
    78%

    21 Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?

  • Prov 8:23-27
    5 verses
    77%

    23 From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.

    24 When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.

    25 Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:

    26 When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.

    27 When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

  • Job 38:33-34
    2 verses
    77%

    33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

    34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

  • Ps 102:25
    76%

    25 In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

  • Job 42:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

    4 Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

  • Job 40:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7 Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

    8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

    9 Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

  • Prov 8:29
    76%

    29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

  • Job 28:12
    75%

    12 But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

  • Job 38:16
    75%

    16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

  • Job 18:4
    75%

    4 But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

  • Job 38:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

    13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

  • Ps 104:5
    74%

    5 He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;

  • Heb 1:10
    74%

    10 You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:

  • Job 28:20
    74%

    20 From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

  • Job 33:5
    74%

    5 If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.

  • Job 37:18
    74%

    18 Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

  • Job 26:4
    73%

    4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

  • Job 34:13
    73%

    13 Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?

  • Job 38:36
    73%

    36 Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

  • Ps 90:2
    73%

    2 Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.

  • Job 37:16
    73%

    16 Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

  • Prov 3:19
    73%

    19 The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place.

  • Job 11:8
    73%

    8 They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

  • Job 38:10
    73%

    10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

  • Prov 30:4
    73%

    4 Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

  • Job 38:38
    73%

    38 When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

  • Ps 139:15
    72%

    15 My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.