Job: Who Can Understand God’s Majesty?
Job 26:5
In 11 translations
- BSB
- The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
- KJV
- Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.and the…: or, with the inhabitants
- WEB
- “The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
- ASV
- They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.
- LSV
- The Rephaim are formed, || Also their inhabitants beneath the waters.
- YLT
- The Rephaim are formed, Beneath the waters, also their inhabitants.
- DBY
- The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof;
- DRC
- Behold the giants groan under the waters, and they that dwell with them.
- GNV
- The dead things are formed vnder the waters, and neere vnto them.
- JPS
- The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.
- LXXE
- Shall giants be born from under the water and the inhabitants thereof?
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הָרְפָאִ֥ים יְחוֹלָ֑לוּ מִתַּ֥חַת מַ֝֗יִם וְשֹׁכְנֵיהֶֽם׃
- LXX-Br
- Μὴ γίγαντες μαιωθήσονται ὑποκάτωθεν ὕδατος καὶ τῶν γειτόνων αὐτοῦ;
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RephaimDeadHadesGiantsFormDecease, in the Old Testament and ApocyphraSheolResurrectionDeathJob, Book of
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 88:10Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
- Genesis 6:4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.
- Job 41:1–34“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope? Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly? Will he make a covenant…
- Ezekiel 29:3–5Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’ But I will…
- Psalms 104:25–26Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small. There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
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