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Job 26:4-6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

4 With whose help have you uttered those words,
    whose breath comes forth from you?(A)
5 The shades[a] beneath writhe in terror,(B)
    the waters, and their inhabitants.
6 Naked before him is Sheol,[b]
    and Abaddon has no covering.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 26:5 Shades: the dead in Sheol, the nether world; cf. Ps 88:11; Is 26:14.
  2. 26:6 Sheol: cf. note on Ps 6:6. Abaddon: Hebrew for “(place of) destruction,” a synonym for nether world; cf. Jb 28:22; Rev 9:11.
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