Job 26:5 “The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them…”

Job 26:5

The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

World English Bible

“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

American Standard Version

They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.

Geneva Bible 1599

The dead things are formed vnder the waters, and neere vnto them.

Darby Translation

The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof;

Young's Literal Translation

The Rephaim are formed, Beneath the waters, also their inhabitants.

Bible in Basic English

The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

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Cross references

“Dead things”

Genesis 6:4 Job 41:1–34 Ezekiel 29:3–5 Psalm 104:25 Psalm 104:26

Genesis 6:4 · BSB

The 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 41:1–34 · BSB

“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Ezekiel 29:3–5 · BSB

Speak 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.’

Psalm 104:25 · BSB

Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

Psalm 104:26 · BSB

There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

Also

Psalm 88:10

Psalm 88:10 · BSB

Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?

6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

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