Job 26:5
Before Him the shades tremble Beneath the waters and their inhabitants.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
In Context
4For whom hast thou uttered these words? And whose spirit spake through thee?
6The under-world is naked before him, And destruction is without covering.
Cross References
Job 41:1Canst thou draw forth the crocodile with a hook, Or press down his tongue with a cord?
Psalms 104:25Lo! this great and wide sea! In it are moving creatures without number, Animals 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 →