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Job 26:6-8
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6 Naked before him is Sheol,[a]
    and Abaddon has no covering.(A)
7 He stretches out Zaphon[b] over the void,
    and suspends the earth over nothing at all;
8 He binds up the waters in his clouds,
    yet the cloud is not split by their weight;

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. 26:7 Zaphon: lit., “the north,” used here as a synonym for the firmament, the heavens; cf. Is 14:13.
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