Job 26:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

Job 26:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 27:1
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Psalms 104:30
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Psalms 74:13-14
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. …
Psalms 33:6-7
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. …
Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-14)

The truth received a great deal of light from the dispute between Job and his friends concerning those points about which they differed; but now they are upon a subject in which they were all agreed, the infinite glory and power of God. How does truth triumph, and how brightly does it shine, when there appears no other strife between the contenders than which shall speak most highly and honourably…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

5-14. As before in the ninth and twelfth chapters, Job had shown himself not inferior to the friends’ inability to describe God’s greatness, so now he describes it as manifested in hell (the world of the dead), Job 26:5, 6; on earth, Job 26:7; in the sky, Job 26:8-11; the sea, Job 26:12; the heavens, Job 26:13. Dead things are formed--Rather, “The souls of the dead (Rephaim) tremble.” Not only doe…