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Job 26:5

Job 26:5
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Dead things are formed from under the waters,.... It is difficult to say what things are here meant; it may be understood of "lifeless" things, as Mr. Broughton renders it; things that never had any…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Dead things - Job here commences his description of God, to show that his views of his majesty and glory were in no way inferior to those which had been expressed by Bildad, and that what Bildad had…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 26:5-14

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,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 26:5-13

That Job has no need to be instructed regarding the greatness of God he now shews, by entering upon an exhibition of its operations in every sphere of that which exists, Hades, the Earth and Heaven,…

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