Job 26:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Sheol is naked before [God], And Abaddon hath no covering.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

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Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Ps 139:8 : 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.
Prov 15:11 : 11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!
Amos 9:2 : 2 Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.
Heb 4:13 : 13 And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Job 28:22 : 22 Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.
Job 41:11 : 11 Who hath first given unto me, that I should repay him? [Whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine.
Ps 88:10 : 10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are deceased arise and praise thee? Selah
Ps 139:11 : 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;
Isa 14:9 : 9 Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Job 11:8 : 8 It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; What canst thou know?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Prov 15:11
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11Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!
Job 26:5
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5They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.
Job 26:7
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7He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Prov 27:20
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20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Isa 5:14
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14Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend [into it].
Job 22:10-11
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10Therefore snares are round about thee, And sudden fear troubleth thee,
11Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.
Isa 14:9
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9Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Job 20:26-27
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26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.
Job 15:28
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28And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;
2 Sam 22:6
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6The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
Job 12:22
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22He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
2 Sam 22:16
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16Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, By the rebuke of Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
Isa 28:18
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18And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Job 24:19
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19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [So doth] Sheol [those that] have sinned.
Ps 73:19
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19How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
Jer 4:23
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23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Job 34:26
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26He striketh them as wicked men In the open sight of others;
Job 9:6
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6That shaketh the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof tremble;
Job 12:14
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14Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Job 33:22
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22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.
Job 34:22
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22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Job 11:8
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8It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; What canst thou know?
Amos 9:2
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2Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.
Prov 6:15
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15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.
Job 36:30
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30Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.
Isa 26:21
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21For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Job 26:11
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11The pillars of heaven tremble And are astonished at his rebuke.
Jer 50:26
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26Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.
Nah 2:10
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10She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.
Prov 9:18
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18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Ps 18:5
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5The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
Isa 24:1
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1Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
Job 10:22
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22The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
Nah 1:5
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5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Prov 30:16
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16Sheol; And the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, Enough.
Ezek 26:20
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20then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.
Heb 4:13
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13And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Ps 46:8
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8Come, behold the works of Jehovah, What desolations he hath made in the earth.
Job 31:3
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3Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Isa 14:15
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15Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.
Ps 141:7
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7As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Job 18:14
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14He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
Jer 13:26
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26Therefore will I also uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear.
Isa 13:6
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6Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Ps 18:15
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15Then the channels of waters appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare, At thy rebuke, O Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Job 14:18
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18But the mountain falling cometh to nought; And the rock is removed out of its place;
Job 22:5
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5Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.
Job 38:17
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17Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?