It is higher than the heavens – what would you do? Deeper than She’ol – what would you know?
Job 26:6 - The Scriptures 2009 She’ol is naked before Him, and destruction has no covering. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hell is naked before him, And destruction hath no covering. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Sheol (the place of the dead) is naked before God, and Abaddon (the place of destruction) has no covering [from His eyes]. American Standard Version (1901) Sheol is naked before God, And Abaddon hath no covering. Common English Bible The grave is naked before God; the underworld lacks covering. Catholic Public Domain Version The underworld is naked before him, and there is no covering for perdition. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hell is naked before him: and there is no covering for destruction. |
It is higher than the heavens – what would you do? Deeper than She’ol – what would you know?
Destruction and death have said, ‘With our ears we have heard a report of it.’
For now I would have been lying in peace. I would have slept – then I would have been at rest,
For that would be a fire that burns to destruction, and take root among all my increase.
Were the gates of death revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Who has given to Me first, that I should repay him – under all the heavens that is Mine?
He who removes mountains, and they do not know it, when He overturns them in His displeasure;
If I say, “Darkness shall cover me,” Then night would be light to me;
If I go up into the heavens, You are there; If I make my bed in She’ol, see, You are there.
Would You work wonders for the dead? Would the dead rise to praise You? Selah.
She’ol and destruction are before יהוה, How much more the hearts of the sons of men.
She’ol and destruction are not satisfied; So the eyes of man are not satisfied.
“She’ol from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the sovereigns of the nations.
“He reveals deep and secret matters. He knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with Him.
“If they dig into She’ol, from there my hand does take them; and if they climb up to the heavens, from there I bring them down.
And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all are naked and laid bare before the eyes of Him with whom is our account.
And they have over them a sovereign, the messenger of the pit of the deep, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apolluon.