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;

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  • Job 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.

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  • Ezra 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.

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  • Revelation 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.

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  • Revelation 2:28

    And I will give him the morning star.

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  • Psalms 104:4

    Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

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  • Job 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.

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  • Zechariah 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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