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Job 26:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Dead things.Or, "The giants {rephaïm} are in anguish under the waters and their inhabitants;" probably in allusion to the destruction of the earth by the deluge.

Job 41:1‑34• ¹Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle,{HR}Or, with a cord thou lettest down, his tongue?
²Dost thou put a rush in his nose,{HR}Or bore his jaw with a thorn?
³Will he multiply supplications to thee?{HR}Will he speak to thee tender things?
⁴Will he make a covenant with thee?{HR}Wilt thou take him [for] ever as a slave?
⁵Wilt thou sport with him as a bird, and bind him for thy girls?
⁶Let partners bargain for him — divide him among traders!
⁷Dost thou fill his skin with pikes, or his head with fish-spears?
⁸Put thine hand on him — remember the battle —{HR}Thou wilt not do it again:
⁹Behold, his hope proveth false.{HR}Even at the sight of him is not [one] cast down?
¹⁰None is so fierce as to provoke him.{HR}And who [is] he that maketh a stand before me?
¹¹Who first gave to me, and I must repay?{HR}Under the whole heaven it [is] mine.
¹²I will not be silent about his parts,{HR}And the matter of his powers, and the beauty of his structure.
¹³Who hath uncovered the face of his garment?{HR}Into his double jaws who entereth in?
¹⁴The doors of his face, who hath opened?{HR}Round about his teeth [is] terror;
¹⁵A pride [are] the concave shields, shut up [as] a close seal;
¹⁶One to another they join, and air entereth not between them;
¹⁷One to another they adhere, they hold together, and separate not.
¹⁸His sneezing flasheth forth light,{HR}And his eyes [are] as eyelids of the dawn.
¹⁹Out of his mouth proceed torches, sparks of fire escape.
²⁰Out of his nostrils issue the smoke,{HR}As out of a seething pot and caldron.
²¹His breath kindleth coals,{HR}And a flame cometh out from his mouth.
²²In his neck strength lodgeth, and before him danceth terror.
²³The flakes of his flesh are fitted close together;{HR}They are fixed fast on him, immovable.
²⁴His heart [is] firm as a stone, as a nether [millstone].
²⁵At his rising up the mighty tremble;{HR}From terror they miss their mark.
²⁶The sword of his overtaker doth not hold, spear, mace, nor lance;
²⁷He reckoneth iron as straw, copper as rotten wood;
²⁸The bolt (child) of the bow causeth him not to flee;{HR}Sling-stones are changed into stubble for him;
²⁹Clubs are reckoned as stubble;{HR}He laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.
³⁰His under parts [are] the sharpest of shards;{HR}He spreadeth a threshing-roller on the mire.
³¹He maketh the deep boil as a pot,{HR}He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment;
³²After him he maketh the path to shine —{HR}One would think the deep hoary.
³³There is not on the dust dominion over him,{HR}Who is made to be without dread;
³⁴He looketh on all that is high,{HR}He [is] king over all the sons of pride. (Job 41:1‑34)

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Gen. 6:4• ⁴The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare to them. These [are] the heroes, mighty men who [were] of old, men of renown . (Gen. 6:4)

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Psa. 104:25‑26• ²⁵Yonder [is] the sea, great and wide,{HR}Moving things there and without number,{HR}Living creatures small and great:
²⁶There ships go,{HR}This leviathan thou hast made to play therein; (Psa. 104:25‑26)

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Ezek. 29:3‑5• ³Speak and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
⁴But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
⁵And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers; thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. (Ezek. 29:3‑5)

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• God’s domain in the depths beneath (vers. 5-6). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

• Bildad had dwelt upon the glories of God as displayed in the heavens; Job declares His domain in the depths. It is not “dead things,” but rather the “shades,” the “things under the earth” (Phil. 2:10). This may refer to the evil spirits, to infernal things; and, according to the manner of the Old Testament, to Sheol and its inhabitants. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof;

W. Kelly Translation

The shades [Rephaim] tremble{HR}Beneath the waters, and they that dwell there.