Job Chapter 26 verse 7 Holy Bible
He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.
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By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
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He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;
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He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
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He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
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He stretches out the north over empty space, And hangs the earth on nothing.
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Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - He streteheth out the north over the empty place. Over what was "empty space" or "chaos" (תּהוּ) God stretches out "the north" - a portion of his orderly creation - perhaps the northern portion of the heavens, where are the grandest constellations visible to the inhabitants of the world's northern half. And hangeth the earth upon nothing. "Takes," i.e., "the huge ball of the earth, and suspends it in vacancy, with nothing to support it but his own fixed will, his own firm laws." This is an idea scarcely reached by astronomers in general, at any rate till the time of Hippar-chus; and it has, not without reason, been regarded as "a very remarkable instance of anticipation of the discoveries of science' (Stanley Loathes).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.--If these words mean what they seem to do--and it is hard to see how they can mean anything else--then they furnish a very remarkable instance of anticipation of the discoveries of science. Here we find Job, more than three thousand years ago, describing in language of scientific accuracy the condition of our globe, and holding it forth as a proof of Divine power. Some have attempted to explain the latter clause of the destitution caused by famine; but that is precluded by the terms of the first clause.
