Job 26:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 139:8 : 8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.
  • Prov 15:11 : 11 Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!
  • Amos 9:2 : 2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Job 28:22 : 22 Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.
  • Job 41:11 : 11 Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.
  • Ps 88:10 : 10 Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)
  • Ps 139:11 : 11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;
  • Isa 14:9 : 9 The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.
  • Job 11:8 : 8 They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 11 Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!

  • 5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

  • 7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

  • 20 The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.

  • 14 For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

  • Job 22:10-11
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    10 For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

    11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • 9 The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

  • Job 20:26-27
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    26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

    27 The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

  • 28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

  • 6 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

  • 22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

  • 16 Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

  • 18 And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.

  • 19 Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

  • 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • 23 Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

  • 26 The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers.

  • 6 Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:

  • 14 Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

  • 22 And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

  • 22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

  • 8 They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

  • 2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:

  • 15 For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

  • 30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

  • 21 For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.

  • 11 The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

  • 26 Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.

  • 10 Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.

  • 18 But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

  • 5 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

  • 1 See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.

  • 22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • 5 The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.

  • 16 The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.

  • 20 Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.

  • 13 And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

  • 8 Come, see the works of the Lord, the destruction which he has made in the earth.

  • 3 Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?

  • 15 But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

  • 7 Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

  • 14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

  • 26 So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.

  • 6 Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

  • 15 Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

  • 18 But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

  • 5 Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

  • 17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?