Job 26:5
3 How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
4 To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
- KJV
- Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
- WEB
- “The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
- ASV
- They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.
- DARBY
- The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof;
- BLB
- The dead are writhing, underneath the waters and those inhabiting them.
- ÅB
- Dødsrikets skygger skjelver, vannenes dyp og de som bor i dem.
- OTB
- "Åndene til de avdøde skjelver
under vannene og deres innbyggere. - B1930
- Dødsrikets skygger skjelver, vannenes dyp og de som bor i dem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 88:10
Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
Read in contextGenesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.
Read in contextJob 41:1–34
“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
Read in contextEzekiel 29:3–5
Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’
Read in contextPsalms 104:25–26
Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
Read in context