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Job 26:5

Job 26:5 is verse 5 of Job chapter 26, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

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King James Version

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

World English Bible

“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

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Job 26:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!

4 To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?

5 The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 41:1

“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Job 41:2

Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Job 41:3

Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

Job 41:4

Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

Job 41:5

Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

Job 41:6

Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

Job 41:7

Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

Job 41:8

If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!

Job 41:9

Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

Job 41:10

No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

Job 41:11

Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

Job 41:12

I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

Job 41:13

Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?

Job 41:14

Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

Job 41:15

His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

Job 41:16

One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

Job 41:17

They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.

Job 41:18

His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

Job 41:19

Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!

Job 41:20

Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

Job 41:21

His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.

Job 41:22

Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.

Job 41:23

The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

Job 41:24

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

Job 41:25

When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

Job 41:26

The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.

Job 41:27

He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

Job 41:28

No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

Job 41:29

A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

Job 41:30

His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

Job 41:31

He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

Job 41:32

He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

Job 41:33

Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature devoid of fear!

Job 41:34

He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”

Genesis 6:4

The 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.

Psalms 104:25

Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

Psalms 104:26

There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

Ezekiel 29:3

Speak 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.’

Ezekiel 29:4

But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.

Ezekiel 29:5

I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.

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