New Living Translation
Job 26:6
6The underworld is naked in God’s presence. The place of destruction is uncovered.
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
4Where have you gotten all these wise sayings? Whose spirit speaks through you? 5“The dead tremble— those who live beneath the waters. The underworld is naked in God’s presence. The place of destruction is uncovered. 7God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing. 8He wraps the rain in his thick clouds, and the clouds don’t burst with the weight.
Read all of Job 26Job 26:6 word by word
עָר֣וֹם שְׁא֣וֹל נֶגְדּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֥ין כְּ֝ס֗וּת לָֽאֲבַדּֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 26:6
- Job 11:8Such knowledge is higher than the heavens— and who are you? It is deeper than the underworld— what do you know?
- Psalms 139:8If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there.
- Proverbs 15:11Even Death and Destruction hold no secrets from the Lord. How much more does he know the human heart!
- Isaiah 14:9“In the place of the dead there is excitement over your arrival. The spirits of world leaders and mighty kings long dead stand up to see you.
- Amos 9:2“Even if they dig down to the place of the dead, I will reach down and pull them up. Even if they climb up into the heavens, I will bring them down.
- Hebrews 4:13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes, and he is the one to whom we are accountable.
- Job 28:22Destruction and Death say, ‘We’ve heard only rumors of where wisdom can be found.’
- Psalms 88:10Are your wonderful deeds of any use to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Interlude
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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