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Job 26:6

Job 26:6
Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Hell is naked before him,.... Which may be taken either for the place of the damned, as it sometimes is; and then the sense is, that though it is hidden from men, and they know not where it is, or who…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Hell - Hebrew שׁאול she'ôl, Sheol; Greek ᾅδης Hadēs Hades. The reference is to the abode of departed spirits - the nether world where the dead were congregated; see the notes at Job 10:21-22. It…

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

Hell is in Heb. Sheol, the place where deceased persons congregate, the world beneath. It is not a place of pain, though a dark and dreary abode, ch. Job 10:21-22. Those there are the dead, who still…