God’s Word Translation
Job 26:5
5“The souls of the dead tremble beneath the water, and so do the creatures living there.
Job 26:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
- New International Version (NIV)“The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The dead tremble under the waters and their inhabitants.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“The dead tremble, Those under the waters and those inhabiting them.
Context of Job 26:5
3You have advised the person who has no wisdom and offered so much assistance. 4To whom have you spoken ⌞these⌟ words, and whose spirit has spoken through you? “The souls of the dead tremble beneath the water, and so do the creatures living there. 6Sheol is naked in God’s presence, and Abaddon has no clothing. 7“He stretches out his heavens over empty space. He hangs the earth on nothing whatsoever.
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הָרְפָאִ֥ים יְחוֹלָ֑לוּ מִתַּ֥חַת מַ֝֗יִם וְשֹׁכְנֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 26:5
- Job 41:1“Can you pull Leviathan out ⌞of the water⌟ with a fishhook or tie its tongue down with a rope?
- Genesis 6:4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, as well as later, when the sons of God slept with the daughters of other humans and had children by them. These children were famous long ago.
- Psalms 104:25The sea is so big and wide with countless creatures, living things both large and small.
- Ezekiel 29:3Tell him, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: I’m against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt. You are like a monster crocodile lying in the Nile River. You say, “The Nile River is mine. I made it for myself.”
Commentaries on Job 26:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Dead things are formed from under the waters - This verse, as it stands in our version, seems to convey no meaning; and the Hebrew is obscure; הרפאים , harephaim, "the Rephaim," certainly means not dead things; nor can there be any propriety in saying that dead things, or things without life, are formed under the waters, for such things are formed everywhere in the earth, and under the earth, as well as under the waters. The Vulgate translates: Ecce…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Dead things - Job here commences his description of God, to show that his views of his majesty and glory were in no way inferior to those which had been expressed by Bildad, and that what Bildad had said conveyed to him no real information. In this description he far surpasses Bildad in loftiness of conception, and sublimity of description. Indeed, it may be doubted whether for grandeur this passage is surpassed by any description of the majesty of God in…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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