the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Job 26:6
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The underworld is naked in God's presence. The place of destruction is uncovered.
Sheol is naked before him, and Abaddon hath no covering.
Sheol is naked before [God], And Abaddon has no covering.
Death is naked before God; destruction is uncovered before him.
The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered.
Hell [is] naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Sheol is naked before God, And Abaddon has no covering.
"Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) is naked before God, And Abaddon (the place of destruction) has no covering [from His eyes].
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
Helle is nakid bifor hym, and noon hilyng is to perdicioun.
Sheol is naked before Him, and Abaddon has no covering.
Nothing in that land of death and destruction is hidden from God,
Sheol is naked before God, And Abaddon hath no covering.
The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
Sh'ol is naked before him; Abaddon lies uncovered.
Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
But God can see clearly into that place of death. Death is not hidden from God.
The nether-world is naked before Him, and Destruction hath no covering.
Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no couering.
The place of the dead has no covering before God and the place that destroys has no covering.
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
The graue is naked before him, and there is no couering for destruction.
Sheol is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.
The world of the dead lies open to God; no covering shields it from his sight.
Naked is hades before him, and there is no covering to destruction;
Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction.
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
He is naked before him, and the very destruction it selfe can not be hyd out of his sight.
Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.
Sheol is naked before God,and Abaddon has no covering.
She'ol is naked before God, And Avaddon has no covering.
Sheol is naked before him, and there is no covering for Abaddon.
Sheol is naked before Him, and the Pit has no covering.
Naked [is] Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.
yee & all they which dwell beneth in the hell are not hyd fro him, & the very destruccion it self ca not be kepte out of his sight.
"Sheol is naked before Him, And Abaddon has no covering.
Sheol is naked before Him, And Destruction has no covering.
"Naked is Sheol before Him, And Abaddon has no covering.
Naked is Sheol before Him,And Abaddon has no covering.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Hell: Job 11:8, Psalms 139:8, Psalms 139:11, Proverbs 15:11, Isaiah 14:9, Amos 9:2, Hebrews 4:13
destruction: Job 28:22, Psalms 88:10
Reciprocal: Job 37:14 - consider Job 38:16 - walked Psalms 88:11 - in destruction Psalms 139:12 - the darkness Daniel 2:22 - he knoweth
Cross-References
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 are in it, and what is done and suffered there; yet it is all known to God: he knows the place thereof, for it is made, ordained, and prepared by him; he knows who are there, even all the wicked dead, and all the nations that forget God, being cast there by him; he knows the torments they endure, for the smoke of them continually ascends before him; and he knows all their malice and envy, their enmity to him, and blasphemy of him; for thither are they gone down with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, Ezekiel 32:27; or for Hades, the invisible world of spirits, or state of the dead, as the Septuagint version renders the word; though that is unseen to men, it is naked and open to the eye of God; or for the grave, in which the bodies of men are laid; which is the frequent sense of the word used,
Psalms 88:11; and though this is a land of darkness, and where the light is as darkness, yet God can look into it; and the dust of men therein is carefully observed and preserved by him, and will be raised again at the last day; who has the keys of death and hell, or the grave, and can open it at his pleasure, and cause it to give up the dead that are therein:
and destruction hath no covering; and may design the same as before, either hell, the place of the damned, where men are destroyed soul and body with an everlasting destruction; or the grave, which the Targum calls the house of destruction, as it sometimes is, the pit of destruction and corruption; because bodies cast into it corrupt and putrefy, and are destroyed in it; and there is nothing to cover either the one or the other from the all seeing eye of God; see Psalms 139:7; as hell is supposed to be under the earth, and the grave is in it, Job is as yet on things below, and from hence rises to those above, in the following words.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 does not mean here, as the word hell does with us, a place of punishment, but the place where all the dead were supposed to be gathered together.
Is naked before him - That is, be looks directly upon that world. It is hidden from us, but not from him. He sees all its inhabitants, knows all their employments, and sways a scepter over them all.
And destruction - Hebrew אבדון 'ăbaddôn, Abaddon; compare Revelation 9:11, “And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.” The Hebrew word means destruction, and then abyss, or place of destruction, and is evidently given here to the place where departed spirits are supposed to reside. The word in this form occurs only here and in Proverbs 15:11; Psalms 88:11; Job 26:6, in all which places it is rendered destruction. The idea here is, not that this is a place where souls are destroyed, but that it is a place similar to destruction - as if all life, comfort, light, and joy, were extinguished.
Hath no covering - There is nothing to conceal it from God. He looks down even on that dark nether world, and sees and knows all that is there. There is a passage somewhat similar to this in Homer, quoted by Longinus as one of unrivaled sublimity, but which by no means surpasses this. It occurs in the Iliad, xx. 61-66:
Εδδεισεν δ ̓ ὑτένερθεϚ ἄναξ ἐνέρων Αιδωνεὺς, κ. τ. λ.
Eddeisen d' hupenerthen anac enerōn Aidōneus, etc.
Deep in the dismal regions of the dead
Th’ infernal monarch reared his horrid head,
Leaped from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay
His dark dominions open to the day,
And pour in light on Pluto’s drear abodes,
Abhorred by men, and dreadful e’en to gods.
Pope
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 26:6. Hell is naked before him — Sheol, the place of the dead, or of separate spirits, is always in his view. And there is no covering to Abaddon - the place of the destroyer, where destruction reigns, and where those dwell who are eternally separated from God. The ancients thought that hell or Tartarus was a vast space in the centre, or at the very bottom of the earth. So VIRGIL, AEn. lib. vi., ver. 577: -
___________________ Tum Tartarus ipse
Bis patet in praeceps tantum, tenditque sub umbras,
Quantus ad aethereum coeli suspectus Olympum
Hic genus antiquum terrae, Titania pubes,
Fulmine dejecti, fundo volvuntur in imo.
"Full twice as deep the dungeon of the fiends,
The huge Tartarean gloomy gulf, descends
Below these regions, as these regions lie
From the bright realms of yon ethereal sky.
Here roar the Titan race, th' enormous birth;
The ancient offspring of the teeming earth.
Pierced by the burning bolts of old they fell,
And still roll bellowing in the depths of hell."
PITT.
And some have supposed that there is an allusion to this opinion in the above passage, as well as in several others in the Old Testament; but it is not likely that the sacred writers would countenance an opinion that certainly has nothing in fact or philosophy to support it. Yet still a poet may avail himself of popular opinions.
