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Job 26:5

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

KJV

Ecce gigantes gemunt sub aquis, et qui habitant cum eis.

Vulgate

μὴ γίγαντες μαιωθήσονται ὑποκάτωθεν ὕδατος καὶ τῶν γειτόνων αὐτοῦ;

LXX

They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.

ASV

הָ/רְפָאִ֥ים יְחוֹלָ֑לוּ מִ/תַּ֥חַת מַ֝֗יִם וְ/שֹׁכְנֵי/הֶֽם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

ו
v
noun · 505×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
ן
n
verb · 61×
רְפָאִ֥ים
rp'ym
noun · 8×
שַׁכֵּ֥ן
shkn
verb · 123×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Eccl 11:5 — As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
  • Gen 6:4 — There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old,
  • Jer 27:5 — I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
  • Job 5:9 — Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
  • Job 38:16 — Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
  • Ps 88:10 — Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.