KJV King James Version
Dead [things] are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
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Job 26:5
Dead [things] are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
WEB World English Bible
“Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
ASV American Standard Version
They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The Rephaim are formed, Beneath the waters, also their inhabitants.
Surrounding context — Job 26
2 How hast thou helped [him that is] without power? [how] savest thou the arm [that hath] no strength?
3 How hast thou counselled [him that hath] no wisdom? and [how] hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
5 Dead [things] are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
6 Hell [is] naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.
8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
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Genesis 6:4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown.Psalm 88:10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.Job 41:1-34Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down?Ezekiel 29:3-5Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river [is] mine own, and I have made [it] for myself.Psalm 104:25-26[So is] this great and wide sea, wherein [are] things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
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