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Job: Who Can Understand God’s Majesty?

Job 26:6

In 11 translations

BSB
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.Abaddon means Destruction.
KJV
Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
WEB
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.Sheol is the place of the dead.Abaddon means Destroyer.
ASV
Sheol is naked before God, And Abaddon hath no covering.
LSV
Sheol [is] naked before Him, || And there is no covering to destruction.
YLT
Naked [is] Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.
DBY
Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
DRC
Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction.
GNV
The graue is naked before him, and there is no couering for destruction.
JPS
The nether-world is naked before Him, and Destruction hath no covering.
LXXE
Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.

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Original-language editions

WLC
עָר֣וֹם שְׁא֣וֹל נֶגְדּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֥ין כְּ֝ס֗וּת לָֽאֲבַדּֽוֹן׃
LXX-Br
Γυμνὸς ὁ ᾅδης ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι περιβόλαιον τῇ ἀπωλείᾳ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Proverbs 15:11Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD— how much more the hearts of men!
  • Psalms 139:8If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
  • Hebrews 4:13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
  • Job 28:22Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’
  • Amos 9:2Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.
  • Psalms 139:11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
  • Isaiah 14:9Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you— all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
  • Psalms 88:10Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
  • Job 41:11Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
  • Job 11:8They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

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