Job 26:5
Behold the giants groan under the waters, and they that dwell with them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
In Context
4Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life?
6Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction.
Cross References
Job 41:1I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel : for who can resist my countenance?
Psalms 104:25So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number: Creatures little and great.
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 →