Job 26:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.”
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BSBPD
“The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“The Rephaim are formed, Beneath the waters, also their inhabitants.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 26:5 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
- Psalms 88:10Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
- Psalms 104:25Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
- Ezekiel 29:3Speak 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.’
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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