Job 26:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Job 26:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 9:8
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Psalms 104:2-5
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: …
Psalms 24:2
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Isaiah 42:5
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

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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. 7)

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…