Job 9:6
He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
In Context
5He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
7He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:8He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s. He has set the world on them.
Job 38:4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
Psalms 114:6You mountains, that you skipped like rams? You little hills, like lambs?
Isaiah 2:19Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
Isaiah 13:13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the LORD of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Isaiah 24:19The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
Matthew Henry on Job 9:2-14
Job's Reply to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth… Read the whole commentary →