It is higher than heaven —what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
Job 26:6 - Revised Standard Version Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 heaven —what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
For then I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,
for that would be a fire which consumes unto Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase.
Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Who has given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger;
If I say, “Let only darkness cover me, and the light about me be night,”
If I ascend to heaven, thou art there! If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there!
Dost thou work wonders for the dead? Do the shades rise up to praise thee? Selah
Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord how much more the hearts of men!
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.
Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come, it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.
he reveals deep and mysterious things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
“Though they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.
And before him no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.