Job 26:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 26

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⁶Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

Job 26:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 139:8
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
Proverbs 15:11
Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
Hebrews 4:13
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Job 28:22
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Amos 9:2
Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Death Gehenna God Guidance Hades Hell

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. 6)

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…