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Job 26:6
6Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Job 26:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
- New International Version (NIV)The realm of the dead is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Sheol is naked before Him, And Destruction has no covering.
Context of Job 26:6
4For whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? 5The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof; Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. 7He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing; 8He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
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עָר֣וֹם שְׁא֣וֹל נֶגְדּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֥ין כְּ֝ס֗וּת לָֽאֲבַדּֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 26:6
- Job 11:8[It is as] the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?
- Psalms 139:8If I ascend up into the heavens thou art there; or if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou [art there];
- Proverbs 15:11Sheol and destruction are before Jehovah; how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
- Isaiah 14:9Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming, stirring up the dead for thee, all the he-goats of the earth; making to rise from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
- Amos 9:2Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to the heavens, thence will I bring them down;
- Hebrews 4:13And there is not a creature unapparent before him; but all things [are] naked and laid bare to his eyes, with whom we have to do.
- Job 28:22Destruction and death say, We have heard its report with our ears.
- Psalms 88:10Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise and praise thee? Selah.
Commentaries on Job 26:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Hell is naked before him - Sheol, the place of the dead, or of separate spirits, is always in his view. And there is no covering to Abaddon - the place of the destroyer, where destruction reigns, and where those dwell who are eternally separated from God. The ancients thought that hell or Tartarus was a vast space in the center, or at the very bottom of the earth. So Virgil, Aen. lib. vi., ver. 577: - - Tum Tartarus ipse Bis patet in praeceps tantum…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Hell - Hebrew שׁאול she'ôl Sheol; Greek ̔́ͅ Hadēs Hades. The reference is to the abode of departed spirits - the nether world where the dead were congregated; see the notes at Job 10:21-22. It does not mean here, as the word hell does with us, a place of punishment, but the place where all the dead were supposed to be gathered together. Is naked before him - That is, be looks directly upon that world. It is hidden from us, but not from him. He sees all…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-14Verses 5-14 Many striking instances are here given of the wisdom and power of God, in the creation and preservation of the world. If we look about us, to the earth and waters here below, we see his almighty power. If we consider hell beneath, though out of our sight, yet we may conceive the discoveries of God's power there. If we look up to heaven above, we see displays of God's almighty power. By his Spirit, the eternal Spirit that moved upon the face of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6The Hebrew word, Sheol, is where all dead people go. It is beneath the waters. The Hebrew word, Abaddon, is the place where evil people go to their destruction.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-145-14. As before in the ninth and twelfth chapters, Job had shown himself not inferior to the friends' inability to describe God's greatness, so now he describes it as manifested in hell (the world of the dead), Job 26:5, 6; on earth, Job 26:7; in the sky, Job 26:8-11; the sea, Job 26:12; the heavens, Job 26:13. Dead things are formed--Rather, "The souls of the dead (Rephaim) tremble." Not only does God's power exist, as Bildad says (Job 25:2), "in high…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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