Job Chapter 26 verse 5 Holy Bible
They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.
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The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
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The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof;
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Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
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Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
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"Those who are deceased tremble, Those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
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The Rephaim are formed, Beneath the waters, also their inhabitants.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 5-14. - Job now turns from controversy to the realities of the case, and begins with a full acknowledgment of God's greatness, might, and inscrutableness. As Bildad seemed to have supposed that he needed enlightenment on these points (Job 26:2-4), Job may have thought it right to make once more a plain profession of his belief (comp. Job 9:4-18; Job 12:9-25, etc.). Verse 5. - Dead things are formed from under the waters; rather, the dead from under the waters tremble. Hehraists generally are agreed that one of the meanings of Rephaim (רְפָאִים) is "the dead" or the departed, considered especially as inhabitants of Hades (comp. Psalm 88:11; Proverbs 2:18; Isaiah 14:9; Isaiah 26:14). And if so, this meaning is certainly appropriate here. Blidad had illustrated God's dominion from his power in heaven. Job shows that it exists alike in heaven and earth (vers. 7-13), and in the region under the earth (vers. 5, 6). There, in Sheol, under the waters of the ocean, the dead tremble at the thought of the Most High; they tremble together with other inhabitants thereof, as evil spirits, rebel intelligences, east down to Hades, and there held in durance (Jude 1:6).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Dead things are formed.--The Hebrew word is the Rephaim, who were among the aboriginal inhabitants of the south of Palestine and the neighbourhood of the Dead Sea, and it is used to express the dead and the inhabitants of the nether world generally. The word rendered are formed probably means either are pierced or tremble: that is, they are pierced through with terror, or they tremble, with a possible reference to the state of the dead as the prey of corruption, though spoken of them where they are beyond the reach of it. All the secrets of this mysterious, invisible, and undiscoverable world are naked and open before Him--the grave lies naked and destruction is uncovered.
