Job 26:5
The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
In Context
4To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
6The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
Cross References
Job 41:1\41:10\He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?
Psalms 104:25There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.
Matthew Henry on Job 26:2-5
Job's Reproof of Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But Job answered and said, 2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? 3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? 4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? One would not have thought that Job, when he was in so much pain and misery, could banter his friend as he does here and make himself merry with the impertinency of his… Read the whole commentary →