Job 26:5
The departed are called into being beneath the waters, and their inhabitants.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
In Context
4To whom hast thou told words? and whose spirit came from thee?
6Naked is the nether world before him, and there is no covering for the place of corruption.
Cross References
Job 41:1(40:25) Canst thou draw out the crocodile with a fishhook? or cause his tongue to sink into the batted rope?
Psalms 104:25Here is this great and wide-extended sea; therein are moving things without number, 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 →