Holy Scripture

Job 38:4

A church father on this verse
“Where wast thou when I was laying the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if thou hast understanding. ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION Behold all things are put together in historical narration, as if concerning the origin of the world. But something is immediately subjoined, which seems to be said of the creation, not of th…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVIII

Source: Septuagint

Original

4Where wast thou when I founded the earth? Tell me now, if thou hast knowledge,

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In context

2Who is this that hides counsel from me, And confines words in his heart, and thinks to conceal them from me?

3Gird thy loins like a man; And I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.

— Job 38:4 —

5Who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? Or who stretched a line upon it?

6On what are its rings fastened? And who is he that laid the cornerstone upon it?

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