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Job 26:5-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Job 26:5-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 The shades[a] beneath writhe in terror,(A)
the waters, and their inhabitants.
6 Naked before him is Sheol,[b]
and Abaddon has no covering.(B)
7 He stretches out Zaphon[c] over the void,
and suspends the earth over nothing at all;
Footnotes
- 26:5 Shades: the dead in Sheol, the nether world; cf. Ps 88:11; Is 26:14.
- 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.
- 26:7 Zaphon: lit., “the north,” used here as a synonym for the firmament, the heavens; cf. Is 14:13.
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