Job 26:5

Dead things are formed from under the waters and the inhabitants thereof, the giant shades or phantoms of the dead whirl and writhe in the underworld, shaking with every manifestation of the divine majesty.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 h...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(d) Dead [things] are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. (d) Job begins to declare the force of God's power and providence i...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Conclusion of Bildad's Speech. Bildad pursues the theme of the greatness of God, begun in Job 25:2-3 . The giants ( Deuteronomy 2:11-20 ) tremble...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Dead things are formed from under the waters. The Ellipsis must be supplied thus: "[The place where] the Rephaim stay [which is] beneath the waters...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. Dead things are formed from under the waters - This verse, as it stands...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Dead things are formed from under the waters— Shall the Rephaim be brought forth from under the waters; and their inhabitants, or their neighbou...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. As before, in Job 9:1-35 ; Job 12:1-25 , Job had shown himself not...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Eighth Speech (Job 26, 27) 1-4. Job taunts Bildad with the worthlessness of his remarks as a solution of the problem. 2, 3, 4 are spoken...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The inhabitants ] probably sea-monsters. The Babylonians believed in a judgment in Sheol under the ocean.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Dead things are formed. — The Hebrew word is the Rephaim, who were among the aboriginal inhabitants of the south of Palestine and the neighbourho...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XXII. THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS Job 26:1-14 ; Job 27:1-23 Job SPEAKS BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm. "How hast thou h...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Outskirts of His Ways” Job 26:1-14 Job taunts Bildad with his reply as having imparted no help or thought. He then proceeds, Job 26:5-14...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

We come next to Job's answer. The reply to Bildad occupies but one chapter, which is characterized from beginning to end by scorn for the man who had...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(5) В¶ Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. (6) Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. (7)...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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, a...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Dead [things] are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. Ver. 5. Dead things are formed from under the waters ] Here Job's ton...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Dead things , &c. That is, according to several interpreters, those seeds which are sown and die in the earth quicken again and grow. Or, as R....
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

BILDAD'S WORDS FUTILE IN JOB'S CASE (vv.1-4) Job begins a reply that continues through six Chapter s, and his friends are totally silenced. His...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Wisdom and Power of God. B. C. 1520. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job having censured Bildad's discourse concerning God's dominion and power, as insignificant and impertinent to their question, he here proceedeth to...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD Job, more alive to Bildad’s want of sympathy than to the excellence of his sentiments in regard to the Divine perfections,...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 26:5 . Dead things, הרפאים ha-raphaim, the raphaim are formed from under the waters. SCHULTENS reads, Manes orcinorum intremiscunt, de su...
The Biblical Illustrator

But Job answered and said. The transcendent greatness of God I. God appears incomprehensibly great in that portion of the universe that is brou...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The long discourse of Job now begins, which forms the central and most solid mass of the book. It continues through six chapters (Job...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 29:3-5 ; Genesis 6:4 ; Job 41:1-34 ; Psalms 104:25 ; Psalms 104:26
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Dead things — Job having censured Bildad's discourse, proceeds to shew how little he needed his information in that point. Here he shews that the p...

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

Related Commentaries of Job 26:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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