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Job 26:7

Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place,.... The northern hemisphere, which is the chief and best known, at least it was in the time of Job, when the southern hemisphere might not be known at…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

He stretcheth out the north - This whole passage is particularly interesting as giving a view of the cosmology which prevailed in those early times. Indeed, as has been already remarked, this poem,…

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,…