He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing. He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them. He covers the face of the full moon and...  Read More

The dead tremble under the waters and their inhabitants. Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.Job 26:5–6+Sheol and AbaddonJob speaks of Sheol and Abaddon. The bottomless bit which th...  Read More

Then Job answered and said: How you have helped him who has no power!  How you have saved the arm that has no strength! How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound kno...  Read More

Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes; how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!Job 25:5–6+A Dimming MoonVerses like these are often ...  Read More

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven. Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise? How then can man be...  Read More

They wrong the barren, childless woman, and do no good to the widow. Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life. He gives them security, and they are ...  Read More

You say, ‘Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards. Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who ...  Read More

The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me’; and he veils his face. In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the lig...  Read More

There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths. The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the ...  Read More

They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter. (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.) They ...  Read More

Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children. They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of...  Read More

Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days? Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. They drive away the donkey of the fatherl...  Read More