Job 38:7
5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
- KJV
- When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
- WEB
- when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
- ASV
- When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
- DARBY
- When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
- BLB
- at the singing together [by] the stars of the morning, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
- ÅB
- mens alle morgenstjerner jublet, og alle Guds sønner ropte av fryd?
- OTB
- da morgenstjernene sang sammen
og alle Guds sønner ropte av fryd? - B1930
- mens alle morgenstjerner jublet, og alle Guds sønner ropte av fryd?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Revelation 5:11
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
Read in contextJob 1:6
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Read in contextEzra 3:11–12
And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
Read in contextRevelation 22:16
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Read in contextRevelation 2:28
And I will give him the morning star.
Read in contextPsalms 104:4
Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
Read in contextJob 2:1
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
Read in contextZechariah 4:7
Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
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