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Job 26:6
Hell is naked before Him, the very abode of darkness cannot hide before His omniscient eye, and destruction, the abyss of hell, hath no covering, all its wasting horrors are open before the eyes of God.
Hell is naked before Him, the very abode of darkness cannot hide before His omniscient eye, and destruction, the abyss of hell, hath no covering, all its wasting horrors are open before the eyes of God.
Verse Job 26:6. _HELL_ IS _NAKED BEFORE HIM_] _Sheol_, the _place of the_ _dead_, or of _separate spirits_, is always in his view. _And there is_ _no covering to Abaddon _- the place of the _destroye...
HELL - Hebrew שׁאול _sh__e__'ôl_, Sheol; Greek ᾅδης _Hadēs_ Hades. The reference is to the abode of departed spirits - the nether world where the dead were congregated; see the notes at Job 10:21...
CHAPTER 26JOB'S REPLY _ 1. A sarcastic beginning (Job 26:1)_ 2. Job also knows and can speak of the greatness of God (Job 26:5) Job 26:1. You have helped me greatly, Bildad, me, who am without power...
CONCLUSION OF BILDAD'S SPEECH. Bildad pursues the theme of the greatness of God, begun in Job 25:2. The giants (Deuteronomy 2:11) tremble at God (Job 26:5). Rephaim ...
HELL. Hebrew. _Sheol_. App-35. DESTRUCTION. Hebrew. _Abaddon_....
_Hell_ is in Heb. _Sheol_, the place where deceased persons congregate, the world beneath. It is not a place of pain, though a dark and dreary abode, ch. Job 10:21-22. Those there are the dead, who st...
That Job has no need to be instructed regarding the greatness of God he now shews, by entering upon an exhibition of its operations in every sphere of that which exists, Hades, the Earth and Heaven, i...
God's presence and power in the underworld. Job 26:5 reads according to the pointing, The Shades tremble Underneath the waters and their inhabitants. The "Shades" (Heb. _Refáim_, the flaccid) are t...
2. No mysteries are hidden from God. (Job 26:5-14) (Some would attribute this section to Bildad.) a. There is no close connection between it and the preceding verses. TEXT 26:5-14 5 THEY THAT ARE DE...
_DEAD THINGS ARE FORMED FROM UNDER THE WATERS, AND THE INHABITANTS THEREOF._ As before, in Job 9:1; Job 12:1, Job had shown himself not inferior to the friends in ability to describe God's greatness,...
26:6 destruction (e-7) _ Abaddon_ . so chs. 28.22; 31.12....
JOB'S EIGHTH SPEECH (JOB 26, 27) 1-4. Job taunts Bildad with the worthlessness of his remarks as a solution of the problem. 2, 3, 4 are spoken ironically....
RV 'Sheol' (the place of the departed) 'is naked before him, and Abaddon' (i.e. destruction, another name for Sheol, cp. Revelation 9:11) 'hath no covering,' viz. from God....
Job described hell. Elsewhere, Job was not sure whether hell exists (Job 3:13-14; Job 21:22-26). But in these verses, Job was not explaining his own ideas. Instead, he was speaking by the power of the...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 26 JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S...
עָרֹ֣ום שְׁאֹ֣ול נֶגְדֹּ֑ו וְ אֵ֥ין כְּ֝ס֗וּת...
XXII. THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS Job 26:1; Job 27:1 Job SPEAKS BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm. "How hast thou helped one without power! How hast thou saved the strengthless...
“THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS” Job 26:1 Job taunts Bildad with his reply as having imparted no help or thought. He then proceeds, Job 26:5, to give a description of God's power as manifested in Hades, i...
We come next to Job's answer. The reply to Bildad occupies but one chapter, which is characterized from beginning to end by scorn for the man who had no more to say. In a series of fierce exclamations...
Hell [is] (e) naked before him, and (f) destruction hath no covering. (e) There is nothing hidden in the bottom of the earth but he sees it. (f) Meaning, the grave in which things putrify....
_Hell. The grave. --- Destruction. Hebrew abaddon. (Haydock) --- St. John (Apocalypse ix. 11.) styles the bottomless abyss; (Calmet) or its angel, (Haydock) Abaddon, or Apollyon. It may here be called...
(5) В¶ Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. (6) Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. (7) He stretcheth out the north over the empty place,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
HELL [IS] NAKED BEFORE HIM,.... Which may be taken either for the place of the damned, as it sometimes is; and then the sense is, that though it is hidden from men, and they know not where it is, or w...
Hell [is] naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. Ver. 6. _Hell and destruction are before him_] Here beginneth a magnificent and stately description of the majesty of God; and, 1. From h...
_Hell is naked before him_ Is in his presence, and under his providence. Hell itself, that place of utter darkness, is not hid from his sight. _Destruction_ The place of destruction, _hath no covering...
BILDAD'S WORDS FUTILE IN JOB'S CASE (vv.1-4) Job begins a reply that continues through six Chapter s, and his friends are totally silenced. His language is amazing, specially considering the length...
The word "Abaddon" means "destruction" and is. synonym for the side of Sheol that includes the wicked. "Even the elite dead are in anguish because God knows and sees them" _(Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 7...
5-14 Many striking instances are here given of the wisdom and power of God, in the creation and preservation of the world. If we look about us, to the earth and waters here below, we see his almighty...
HELL, as this word is frequently used, as JOB 11:8 ISAIAH 57:9, &c. And so it seems to be explained by the following word, DESTRUCTION, i.e. the place of destruction, which interpreters generally unde...
Job 26:6 Sheol H7585 naked H6174 Destruction H11 covering H3682 Hell - Job 11:8; Psalms 139:8,
HELL Hebrew, "Sheol," ( See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). Also, (Psalms 139:8); (Psalms 139:11); (Proverbs 15:11)
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad. His faith in God. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: God is infinite and incomprehensible; man's capacities to understand Him and all His ways are weak, the...
Job 26:5. _Dead things,_ הרפאים _ha-raphaim,_ the raphaim _are formed from under the waters._ SCHULTENS reads, _Manes orcinorum intremiscunt, de subter aquis, et la habitatores eorum._ The manes of th...
_But Job answered and said._ THE TRANSCENDENT GREATNESS OF GOD I. God appears incomprehensibly great in that portion of the universe that is brought under human observation. 1. In connection with t...
JOB 26:1 Job: The Power of God, Place of Wisdom, and Path of Integrity. Up until now, the dialogue between Job and his three friends has followed a pattern in which each speech by Job is followed by r...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 26:5 The state or realm of the DEAD is not visible to humanity (it is UNDER THE WATERS), but it is NAKED and HAS NO COVERING before God ...
_JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD_ Job, more alive to Bildad’s want of sympathy than to the excellence of his sentiments in regard to the Divine perfections, speaks somewhat petulantly,—certainly with irony and...
EXPOSITION The long discourse of Job now begins, which forms the central and most solid mass of the book. It continues through six chapters (Job 26-31.). In it Job, after hastily brushing aside Bildad...
So Job answers now this little saying of Bildad. It's his third and final answer to Job, and it's really nothing. Job answered and said, How have you helped him that is without power? how can you save...
Amos 9:2; Hebrews 4:13; Isaiah 14:9; Job 11:8; Job 28:22;...
Hell — Is in his presence, and under his providence. Hell itself, that place of utter darkness, is not hid from his sight. Destruction — The place of destruction....