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“The ghosts and their neighbors
    in the underworld[a] shake with fear.
But God can see clearly into that place of death.
    Death[b] is not hidden from God.
God stretched the northern sky over empty space.
    He hung the earth on nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 26:5 The ghosts … underworld Literally, “The ghosts under the water.” This refers to Sheol, the place of death.
  2. Job 26:6 Death Or “Abaddon,” a Hebrew name meaning “death” or “destruction.” See Rev. 9:11.

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