Job 26:5
The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
In Context
4With whose help hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?
6The nether-world is naked before Him, and Destruction hath no covering.
Cross References
Job 41:1(40-25) Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his tongue with a cord?
Psalms 104:25Yonder sea, great and wide, therein are creeping things innumerable, living creatures, both small 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 →