Job 26:5
The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
In Context
4To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
Cross References
Job 41:1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
Psalms 104:25Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
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 →