Questions where the Bible appears to say two different things, with the passages on each side set together.
What is the earth set upon?Job 26:7 says God 'hangeth the earth upon nothing.' 1 Samuel 2:8 and Job 9:6 say the earth rests on pillars that God himself can shake.
Amos 5:8(v9)seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for…
Psalms 75:3(v6)The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars.
Isaiah 13:10(v7)For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not…
Isaiah 44:24(v8)Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens;…
Haggai 2:6(v6)For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;
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Hebrews 12:26(v6)whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”
Genesis 1:16(v9)God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
Job 26:11(v6)The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
Job 38:4-7(v6)“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. Who determined its measures, if you know? Or…
Job 38:31-41(v9)“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion? Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you…
Psalms 104:2-3(v8)He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain. He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters.…
Isaiah 2:21(v6)to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his…
Isaiah 40:22(v8)It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,…
Job 37:18(v8)Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
Isaiah 2:19(v6)Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his…
Amos 8:9(v7)It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear…
Zechariah 12:1(v8)A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the…
Psalms 33:6(v8)By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.
Psalms 114:7(v6)Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
Psalms 147:4(v9)He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.
Isaiah 13:13-14(v6)Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his…
Jeremiah 10:11(v8)“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the…
Haggai 2:21(v6)“Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, ‘I will shake the heavens and the earth.
Matthew 14:25-30(v8)In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea. When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were…
Luke 21:25-26(v7)There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the…
Exodus 10:21-22(v7)Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be…
Joshua 10:12(v7)Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel,…
1 Samuel 2:8(v6)He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of…
Job 37:7(v7)He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.
Job 38:11(v8)and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here?’
Job 38:16(v8)“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
Job 38:19-20(v7)“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place, that you should take it to its bound, that you should…
Psalms 104:13(v9)He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
Isaiah 24:1(v6)Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
Isaiah 24:19-20(v6)The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently. The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will…
Isaiah 42:5(v8)God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives…
Jeremiah 4:24(v6)I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.
Ezekiel 32:7-8(v7)When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make its stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon won’t give its…
Daniel 4:35(v7)All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants…
Joel 2:10(v6)The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
Amos 4:13(v7)For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and…
Matthew 24:29(v7)But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the…
John 6:19(v8)When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they…
Acts 28:13(v9)From there we circled around and arrived at Rhegium. After one day, a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli,
Revelation 20:11(v6)I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
Genesis 1:6-7(v8)God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” God made the expanse, and…
Job 37:9(v9)Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.
Psalms 77:19(v8)Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
Psalms 104:3(v9)He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
Job 38:12-15(v7)“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place, that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and…
Psalms 93:3-4(v8)The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves. Above the voices of many waters,…
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Geneva Bible translators1599 · Public DomainOn vv6, 9He declareth what is the infirmity of man, by…
He declareth what is the infirmity of man, by the mighty and incomprehensible power that is in God, showing what he could do if he would set forth his power.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp1656 · Public DomainOn vv6–9Job 9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her…
Job 9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Ver. 6. Which shaketh the earth out of her place] By mighty earthquakes, dislocating the earth, some part of it; for the whole was never removed, though God can take up the whole globe as a man would do a ball, tossing the very centre itself whereon it is established, 2Sa 22:8, &c. There is a twofold power of God; 1. Absolute. 2. Actual. By the former he can do more than he doth: by the latter, whatsoever he willeth, that without impediment he effecteth. As for the earth, as God upholdeth it by the word of his power, Heb 1:3, so he hath poised it merely by its own weight, that it should not be removed for ever, Psa 104:5. For if you imagine that the earth could be removed out of its natural place, which way soever it be removed, it shall move towards heaven, and so shall naturally ascend; but to do so is utterly repugnant to the nature of the earth, which is to bear downward. All which, notwithstanding, the God of nature, as he is in the heaven, so he doth whatsoever he will in heaven and earth.
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Matthew Poole1685 · Public DomainOn vv6–9The earth, i.e. great portions of it, by earthquakes,…
The earth, i.e. great portions of it, by earthquakes, or by removing islands, which sometimes hath been done.
The pillars thereof, i.e. the strength or the strongest parts of it, the mountains, yea, the deep and inward parts of it, which, like pillars, supported those parts which appear to our view, and yet have been discovered and overturned by earthquakes.
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John Gill1763 · Public DomainOn vv6–9Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not,.... Either…
Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not,.... Either he could do it if he would, by a word speaking, as he ordered it to stand still in the times of Joshua, Jos 10:13, and caused the shadow to return ten degrees it had gone back in the dial of Ahaz, in the times of Hezekiah, Kg2 20:11; or else the sense is, it rises not at any other time and place but when and where he commands it; or he commands it not to rise in the same place at one time of the year as at another, and it rises not; or this may be understood of eclipses, or of its being covered with clouds in tempestuous weather for a considerable time together, when it seems as if it was not risen: some think this respects the three days' darkness in Egypt, when the Israelites were there, Exo 10:22, which was a little before, or about the time of Job; or rather it refers to the general flood, in the times of Noah, when it rained forty days and forty nights, Gen 7:12, during which time the sun appeared not, and so seemed as if it was not risen; see Amo 8:9; Herodotus (b) relates, from the memoirs of the Egyptians, that the sun rose four times out of its usual course; twice it rose where it now sets, and twice it set where it now rises:
and sealeth up the stars: either by the light of the sun in the daytime, which hides them that they are not visible, or by dark clouds and tempestuous weather in the night; such a season as that was in which the Apostle Paul and the mariners with him were, when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, Act 27:20, and so the Targum paraphrases it, and"sealeth up the stars with clouds;''this may also refer to the time of the flood, during the rain of forty days and nights, Gen 7:4; or to the annual motion of the sun through the ecliptic, which makes the point of the sun's rising and setting vary, and is the reason why some stars appear in summer and are sealed up in winter, and others that are seen in winter are not visible in summer; and so Cocceius interprets it.
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(b) Euterpe, sive, l. 2. c. 149.
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John Wesley1765 · Public DomainOn vv6, 8, 9The earth - Great portions of it, by earthquakes,…
The earth - Great portions of it, by earthquakes, or by removing islands. Pillars - The deep and inward parts of it, which like pillars supported those parts that appear to our view.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke1810 · Public DomainOn vv6–9Verse 6. The pillars thereof tremble.] This also refers…
Verse 6. The pillars thereof tremble.] This also refers to an earthquake, and to that tremulous motion which sometimes gives warning of the approaching catastrophe, and from which this violent convulsion of nature has received its name. Earthquakes, in Scripture language, signify also violent commotions and disturbances in states; mountains often signify rulers; sun, empires; stars, petty states. But it is most likely that the expressions here are to be understood literally.
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Joseph Benson1811 · Public DomainOn vv7–9Job 9:7. Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth…
Job 9:7. Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not — Nor are the heavens less subject to his power; for neither sun nor stars can shine if he forbid them. “Bishop Warburton supposes, that this alludes to the miraculous history of the people of God, such as the Egyptian darkness, and the stopping the sun’s course by Joshua. But surely there is no necessity, from the words themselves, to suppose any allusion of this kind, or, indeed, any thing miraculous, since God, by throwing a thick cloud over the sun and stars, can and does obscure them when he pleases.” — Dodd. And things in the Scriptures are often said to be or not to be, when they appear or disappear; of which some instances have been given in the former part of this work, and we shall have more hereafter in their proper places. Thus it is that the Chaldee Paraphrast understands the passage. And sealeth up the stars — That is, covereth and shutteth them up, that they may not shine, as in dark and dismal tempests, like that mentioned Act 27:20, when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days.
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Albert Barnes1834 · Public DomainOn vv6–9Which shaketh the earth out of her place -…
Which shaketh the earth out of her place - This evidently refers to violent convulsions of nature, as if the earth were to be taken away. Objects on the earth’s surface become displaced, and convulsion seems to seize the world. The Septuagint renders this, “who shaketh that which is under the heavens from its foundations” - ἐκ Θεμελίων ek themeliōn. The change in the Hebrew would be very slight to authorize this rendering.
And the pillars thereof tremble - In this place the earth is represented as sustained like a building by pillars or columns. Whether this is a mere poetic representation, or whether it describes the actual belief of the speaker in regard to the structure of the earth, it is not easy to determine. I am inclined to think it is the former, because in another place where he is speaking of the earth, he presents his views in another form, and more in acoordance with the truth (see the notes at Job 26:7): and because here the illustration is evidently taken from the obvious and perceived effects of an earthquake. It would convulse and agitate the pillars of the most substantial edifice, and so it seemed to shake the earth, as if its very supports would fall.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary1859 · Public DomainOn vv6–9Pillars. These are represented as fixed in the waters,…
Pillars. These are represented as fixed in the waters, Proverbs viii. 29., and Psalm xxvii. 16., &c.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown1871 · Public DomainOn vv6–9The earth is regarded, poetically, as resting on pillars,…
The earth is regarded, poetically, as resting on pillars, which tremble in an earthquake (Psa 75:3; Isa 24:20). The literal truth as to the earth is given (Job 26:7).
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Daniel D. Whedon1874 · Public DomainOn vv6–96. Pillars thereof — Job speaks after the popular…
6. Pillars thereof — Job speaks after the popular notion of the day, of the earth as resting on pillars, as we still speak of the rising of the sun. That he had a correct knowledge of the spherical form of the earth, is evident from Job_26:7, where see note. Dillmann explains the pillars, by the roots of the mountains, which sustained the earth as their summits did the heavens: Jerome, that they figuratively represent its stability.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges1878 · Public DomainOn vv6–96. The reference is probably to earthquakes. The earth…
6. The reference is probably to earthquakes. The earth is conceived as a structure supported on pillars, ch. Job_38:6; Psa_75:3. The conception was poetical; if the pillars were supposed anything actual, they were probably the roots of the great mountains which extended downwards and bore up the earth, as the part of them above the earth supported the heavens.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers1878 · Public DomainOn vv7–9(7) And sealeth up the stars—Comp. Job_41:15. The idea…
(7) And sealeth up the stars—Comp. Job_41:15. The idea of shutting up, taking away the power of, &c., is contained in the expression “sealing.”
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The Pulpit Commentary1880 · Public DomainOn vv6–9Which shaketh the earth out of her place. This…
Which shaketh the earth out of her place. This is a still more startling figure of speech; but comp. Psa_46:2 Psa_68:16 Psa_114:4, Psa_114:6. And the pillars thereof tremble. The earth is conceived of, poetically, as a huge edifice, supported on pillars, (comp. Psa_75:3) which in an earthquake are shaken, and impart their motion to the entire building. Rosenmuller"s quotation of Seneca, "Nat. Quaest.," 6:20 ex aliqua parle terra veluti columnis quibusdam et pills sustinetur, quibus vitiatis et recedentibus tremit pondus impositum is apposite.
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C. I. Scofield1917 · Public DomainOn v9Heb. Ash, Cesil, and Cimah.
Arcturus
Heb. Ash, Cesil, and Cimah.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0On v7who covers up the stars
who covers up the stars
"who blocks the stars from view"
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who by himself stretches out the heavens
God is spoken of as creating the heavens without any help, as if the heavens were fabric that he stretches out. (See: Reflexive Pronouns and Metaphor)
tramples down the waves of the sea
God is spoken of as calming the sea as if with his feet. AT: "puts his feet down on the waves of the sea" or "calms the waves of the sea" (See: Metaphor)
the Bear, Orion, the Pleiades
These are the names of constellations, which are groups of stars that seem like they form a particular shape in the sky. (See: Translate Unknowns)
Orion
a famous hunter in Greek mythology
Pleiades
several bright stars that look like they are close together in the sky
constellations
groups of stars that seem like they form a particular shape in the sky
Tyndale Open Study Notes2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0On v99:9 The Bear (also at 38:32) is commonly identified…
9:9 The Bear (also at 38:32) is commonly identified as Arcturus but might also refer to the constellations of Ursa Minor or Leo. • The Pleiades is a group of seven stars (38:31; Amos 5:8).
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv6, 9 He declareth what is the infirmity of man, by…
He declareth what is the infirmity of man, by the mighty and incomprehensible power that is in God, showing what he could do if he would set forth his power.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv6–9 Job 9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her…
Job 9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Ver. 6. Which shaketh the earth out of her place] By mighty earthquakes, dislocating the earth, some part of it; for the whole was never removed, though God can take up the whole globe as a man would do a ball, tossing the very centre itself whereon it is established, 2Sa 22:8, &c. There is a twofold power of God; 1. Absolute. 2. Actual. By the former he can do more than he doth: by the latter, whatsoever he willeth, that without impediment he effecteth. As for the earth, as God upholdeth it by the word of his power, Heb 1:3, so he hath poised it merely by its own weight, that it should not be removed for ever, Psa 104:5. For if you imagine that the earth could be removed out of its natural place, which way soever it be removed, it shall move towards heaven, and so shall naturally ascend; but to do so is utterly repugnant to the nature of the earth, which is to bear downward. All which, notwithstanding, the God of nature, as he is in the heaven, so he doth whatsoever he will in heaven and earth.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv6–9 The earth, i.e. great portions of it, by earthquakes,…
The earth, i.e. great portions of it, by earthquakes, or by removing islands, which sometimes hath been done.
The pillars thereof, i.e. the strength or the strongest parts of it, the mountains, yea, the deep and inward parts of it, which, like pillars, supported those parts which appear to our view, and yet have been discovered and overturned by earthquakes.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv6–9 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not,.... Either…
Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not,.... Either he could do it if he would, by a word speaking, as he ordered it to stand still in the times of Joshua, Jos 10:13, and caused the shadow to return ten degrees it had gone back in the dial of Ahaz, in the times of Hezekiah, Kg2 20:11; or else the sense is, it rises not at any other time and place but when and where he commands it; or he commands it not to rise in the same place at one time of the year as at another, and it rises not; or this may be understood of eclipses, or of its being covered with clouds in tempestuous weather for a considerable time together, when it seems as if it was not risen: some think this respects the three days' darkness in Egypt, when the Israelites were there, Exo 10:22, which was a little before, or about the time of Job; or rather it refers to the general flood, in the times of Noah, when it rained forty days and forty nights, Gen 7:12, during which time the sun appeared not, and so seemed as if it was not risen; see Amo 8:9; Herodotus (b) relates, from the memoirs of the Egyptians, that the sun rose four times out of its usual course; twice it rose where it now sets, and twice it set where it now rises:
and sealeth up the stars: either by the light of the sun in the daytime, which hides them that they are not visible, or by dark clouds and tempestuous weather in the night; such a season as that was in which the Apostle Paul and the mariners with him were, when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, Act 27:20, and so the Targum paraphrases it, and"sealeth up the stars with clouds;''this may also refer to the time of the flood, during the rain of forty days and nights, Gen 7:4; or to the annual motion of the sun through the ecliptic, which makes the point of the sun's rising and setting vary, and is the reason why some stars appear in summer and are sealed up in winter, and others that are seen in winter are not visible in summer; and so Cocceius interprets it.
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(b) Euterpe, sive, l. 2. c. 149.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv6, 8, 9 The earth - Great portions of it, by earthquakes,…
The earth - Great portions of it, by earthquakes, or by removing islands. Pillars - The deep and inward parts of it, which like pillars supported those parts that appear to our view.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv6–9 Verse 6. The pillars thereof tremble.] This also refers…
Verse 6. The pillars thereof tremble.] This also refers to an earthquake, and to that tremulous motion which sometimes gives warning of the approaching catastrophe, and from which this violent convulsion of nature has received its name. Earthquakes, in Scripture language, signify also violent commotions and disturbances in states; mountains often signify rulers; sun, empires; stars, petty states. But it is most likely that the expressions here are to be understood literally.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv7–9 Job 9:7. Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth…
Job 9:7. Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not — Nor are the heavens less subject to his power; for neither sun nor stars can shine if he forbid them. “Bishop Warburton supposes, that this alludes to the miraculous history of the people of God, such as the Egyptian darkness, and the stopping the sun’s course by Joshua. But surely there is no necessity, from the words themselves, to suppose any allusion of this kind, or, indeed, any thing miraculous, since God, by throwing a thick cloud over the sun and stars, can and does obscure them when he pleases.” — Dodd. And things in the Scriptures are often said to be or not to be, when they appear or disappear; of which some instances have been given in the former part of this work, and we shall have more hereafter in their proper places. Thus it is that the Chaldee Paraphrast understands the passage. And sealeth up the stars — That is, covereth and shutteth them up, that they may not shine, as in dark and dismal tempests, like that mentioned Act 27:20, when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days.
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv6–9 Which shaketh the earth out of her place -…
Which shaketh the earth out of her place - This evidently refers to violent convulsions of nature, as if the earth were to be taken away. Objects on the earth’s surface become displaced, and convulsion seems to seize the world. The Septuagint renders this, “who shaketh that which is under the heavens from its foundations” - ἐκ Θεμελίων ek themeliōn. The change in the Hebrew would be very slight to authorize this rendering.
And the pillars thereof tremble - In this place the earth is represented as sustained like a building by pillars or columns. Whether this is a mere poetic representation, or whether it describes the actual belief of the speaker in regard to the structure of the earth, it is not easy to determine. I am inclined to think it is the former, because in another place where he is speaking of the earth, he presents his views in another form, and more in acoordance with the truth (see the notes at Job 26:7): and because here the illustration is evidently taken from the obvious and perceived effects of an earthquake. It would convulse and agitate the pillars of the most substantial edifice, and so it seemed to shake the earth, as if its very supports would fall.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv6–9 Pillars. These are represented as fixed in the waters,…
Pillars. These are represented as fixed in the waters, Proverbs viii. 29., and Psalm xxvii. 16., &c.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv6–9 The earth is regarded, poetically, as resting on pillars,…
The earth is regarded, poetically, as resting on pillars, which tremble in an earthquake (Psa 75:3; Isa 24:20). The literal truth as to the earth is given (Job 26:7).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv6–9 6. Pillars thereof — Job speaks after the popular…
6. Pillars thereof — Job speaks after the popular notion of the day, of the earth as resting on pillars, as we still speak of the rising of the sun. That he had a correct knowledge of the spherical form of the earth, is evident from Job_26:7, where see note. Dillmann explains the pillars, by the roots of the mountains, which sustained the earth as their summits did the heavens: Jerome, that they figuratively represent its stability.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv6–9 6. The reference is probably to earthquakes. The earth…
6. The reference is probably to earthquakes. The earth is conceived as a structure supported on pillars, ch. Job_38:6; Psa_75:3. The conception was poetical; if the pillars were supposed anything actual, they were probably the roots of the great mountains which extended downwards and bore up the earth, as the part of them above the earth supported the heavens.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv7–9 (7) And sealeth up the stars—Comp. Job_41:15. The idea…
(7) And sealeth up the stars—Comp. Job_41:15. The idea of shutting up, taking away the power of, &c., is contained in the expression “sealing.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv6–9 Which shaketh the earth out of her place. This…
Which shaketh the earth out of her place. This is a still more startling figure of speech; but comp. Psa_46:2 Psa_68:16 Psa_114:4, Psa_114:6. And the pillars thereof tremble. The earth is conceived of, poetically, as a huge edifice, supported on pillars, (comp. Psa_75:3) which in an earthquake are shaken, and impart their motion to the entire building. Rosenmuller"s quotation of Seneca, "Nat. Quaest.," 6:20 ex aliqua parle terra veluti columnis quibusdam et pills sustinetur, quibus vitiatis et recedentibus tremit pondus impositum is apposite.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v9 Heb. Ash, Cesil, and Cimah.
Arcturus
Heb. Ash, Cesil, and Cimah.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v7 who covers up the stars
who covers up the stars
"who blocks the stars from view"
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who by himself stretches out the heavens
God is spoken of as creating the heavens without any help, as if the heavens were fabric that he stretches out. (See: Reflexive Pronouns and Metaphor)
tramples down the waves of the sea
God is spoken of as calming the sea as if with his feet. AT: "puts his feet down on the waves of the sea" or "calms the waves of the sea" (See: Metaphor)
the Bear, Orion, the Pleiades
These are the names of constellations, which are groups of stars that seem like they form a particular shape in the sky. (See: Translate Unknowns)
Orion
a famous hunter in Greek mythology
Pleiades
several bright stars that look like they are close together in the sky
constellations
groups of stars that seem like they form a particular shape in the sky
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God
raise
heaven
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v9 9:9 The Bear (also at 38:32) is commonly identified…
9:9 The Bear (also at 38:32) is commonly identified as Arcturus but might also refer to the constellations of Ursa Minor or Leo. • The Pleiades is a group of seven stars (38:31; Amos 5:8).
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