Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
declare, thou if thou hast understanding,
a. NLT: Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell me, if you know so much.
Tell me, if you know so much.
b. NIV: Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if
you understand.
c. YLT: Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast
known understanding.
d. Amplified Bible Classic: Where were you when I laid the foundation
of the earth? Declare to Me, if you have and know
understanding.
e. Septuagint: Where wast thou when I founded the earth? tell me now,
if thou hast knowledge,
f. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/Writings: Where were you when I laid
the earth’s foundation? Tell, if you know understanding!
1. “Where wast thou
when I laid the foundations of the earth…”
a. Where wast thou [375 * 'eyphoh] [Strong: from 335 and 6311;
what place?; also (of time) when?; or (of means) how?; --what manner, where.]
b. when I laid the foundations [3245
* yacad] [Strong: a primitive root; to set (literally or figuratively);
intensively, to found; reflexively, to sit down together, i.e. settle,
consult:--appoint, take counsel, establish, (lay the, lay for a) found(-ation),
instruct, lay, ordain, set, X sure]
c. of the earth [776 * 'erets]
[Strong: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large,
or partitively a land):--X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X
natins, way, + wilderness, world.]
1). The writer in Psalms 102
eclares it was God who laid those foundations.
a). Psalm 102:25-27 Of old hast thou laid the
foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
103:26 They shall perish, but thou
shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt
thou change them, and they shall be changed:
103:27 But thou art the same, and
thy years shall have no end.
2). The book of Hebrews tells us
that the first person of the Triune Godhead [the Father] spoke to the second [the
Son] these very words, even calling the Son “God”.
a). Hebrews 1:8-12 But unto the
Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a scepter of
righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.
1:9 Thou hast loved righteousness,
and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the
oil of gladness above thy fellows.
1:10 And, Thou, Lord, in the
beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works
of thine hands:
1:11 They shall perish; but thou
remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
1:12 And as a vesture shalt thou
fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years
shall not fail.
3). The only logical conclusion is
that the LORD of Job 38:1 is the pre-incarnate Jesus, the LORD of the Old
Covenant.
2. “…declare, thou if thou hast understanding,”
a. declare [5046 * nagad] [Strong:
a primitive root; properly, to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by
implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by
word of mouth to one present); specifically, to expose, predict, explain,
praise:--bewray, X certainly, certify, declare(-ing), denounce, expound, X fully,
messenger, plainly, profess, rehearse, report, shew (forth), speak, X surely,
tell, utter.]
b. if thou hast [3045 * yada’] [Strong: a primitive root; to
know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses,
figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including
observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation,
punishment, etc.) (as follow):--acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise,
answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly,
comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause
to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be
(ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to
give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make
self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X
prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be
sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will
be, wist, wit, wot.]
c. understanding [998 * biynah] [Strong: from 995;
understanding:--knowledge, meaning, X perfectly, understanding, wisdom.]
1). Institute Of Creation Research
Daily Devotional 4/14/15 In chapters 38–41 of Job is recorded a remarkable
series of 77 questions about the creation—questions which God asked Job and his
philosophizing friends, and which they were utterly unable to answer. At the
end of the searching examination, Job could only confess: “Therefore have I
uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not” (Job
42:3). Modern evolutionists, despite all their arrogant pretensions, still are
not able to answer them either, over 35 centuries later! But there is one who
can answer them, and His answers echo back from another ancient document, the
marvelous eighth chapter of Proverbs. To God’s first question, “Where wast thou
when I laid the foundations of the earth,” comes His answer: “When he appointed
the foundations of the earth: Then I was by him” (Proverbs 8:29, 30). The
speaker here is the divine wisdom. He is the Word of God, the pre-incarnate Son
of God, soon to become the Son of man. In this amazing chapter, He echoes an
answer to the most searching of God’s inscrutable questions to Job and his
friends: “Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth?” (Job 38:8). “He
set a compass [literally ‘sphericity’] upon the face of the depth: . . . When
he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment”
(Proverbs 8:27,29). “Hast thou commanded the morning . . . and caused the
dayspring to know his place?” (Job 38:12). “When he prepared the heavens, I was
there” (Proverbs 8:27). Our Savior was there! “For by him were all things
created” (Colossians 1:16). One more question: “Have the gates of death been
opened unto thee?” (Jobn 38:17). Yes, and they have not prevailed! “For whoso
findeth me findeth life, . . . all they that hate me love death” (Proverbs
8:35, 36). HMM
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