Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent. New Living Translation His Spirit made the heavens beautiful, and his power pierced the gliding serpent. English Standard Version By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. Berean Standard Bible By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. King James Bible By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. New King James Version By His Spirit He adorned the heavens; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. New American Standard Bible “By His breath the heavens are cleared; His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent. NASB 1995 “By His breath the heavens are cleared; His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent. NASB 1977 “By His breath the heavens are cleared; His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent. Legacy Standard Bible By His breath the heavens are made beautiful; His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent. Amplified Bible “By His breath the heavens are cleared; His hand has pierced the [swiftly] fleeing serpent. Christian Standard Bible By his breath the heavens gained their beauty; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. Holman Christian Standard Bible By His breath the heavens gained their beauty; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. American Standard Version By his Spirit the heavens are garnished; His hand hath pierced the swift serpent. Aramaic Bible in Plain English By his Spirit he governs Heaven, and his hand killed the Serpent which fled Brenton Septuagint Translation And the barriers of heaven fear him, and by a command he has slain the apostate dragon. Contemporary English Version The heavens became bright when he breathed, and the escaping sea monster died at his hands. Douay-Rheims Bible His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and his obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent. English Revised Version By his spirit the heavens are garnished; his hand hath pierced the swift serpent. GOD'S WORD® Translation With his wind the sky was cleared. With his hand he stabbed the fleeing snake. Good News Translation It is his breath that made the sky clear, and his hand that killed the escaping monster. International Standard Version he clears the skies with his wind; his hands have pierced the fleeing serpent. JPS Tanakh 1917 By His breath the heavens are serene; His hand hath pierced the slant serpent. Literal Standard Version He beautified the heavens by His Spirit, | His hand has formed the fleeing serpent. Majority Standard Bible By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. New American Bible By his wind the heavens were made clear, his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. NET Bible By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. New Revised Standard Version By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. New Heart English Bible By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent. Webster's Bible Translation By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. World English Bible By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent. Young's Literal Translation By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His hand the fleeing serpent. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job: Who Can Understand God's Majesty?…12By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab. 13By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. 14Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”… Cross References Job 9:8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea. Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent--Leviathan the coiling serpent--and He will slay the dragon of the sea. Treasury of Scripture By his spirit he has garnished the heavens; his hand has formed the crooked serpent. his spirit Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Psalm 33:6,7 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth… Psalm 104:30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth. the crooked serpent Psalm 74:13,14 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters… Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Jump to Previous Beautified Breath Bright Cleared Crooked Cut Fair Fleeing Formed Garnished Gliding Hand Heavens Moving Pierced Quickly Serpent Skies Slant Snake Spirit Swift WindJump to Next Beautified Breath Bright Cleared Crooked Cut Fair Fleeing Formed Garnished Gliding Hand Heavens Moving Pierced Quickly Serpent Skies Slant Snake Spirit Swift WindJob 26 1. Job, reproving the uncharitable spirit of Bildad5. acknowledges the power of God to be infinite and unsearchable (13) The crooked serpent.--By this expression is doubtless meant the forked lightning-flash, though it is difficult to determine whether any, or what mythological ideas may underlie the expression, or whether it is anything more than a figure derived from the natural world, which suggested the similitude of the flying serpent. Others understand by it the constellation of the Northern Dragon, to whose influence storms were ascribed.Verse 13. - By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; or, by his spirit the heavens are brightness; i.e. at a breath from his mouth the heavens, lately all cloud and storm (vers. 8-11), recover their serenity, are calm and clear and bright. Our experience says, "After a storm comes a calm." Job notes that both alike are from God. His hand hath formed the crooked serpent; rather, his hand hath pierced the swift serpent (see the Revised Version). The reference is probably to "the war in heaven," already suggested by the mention of" Rahab" (ver. 12). In that war, according to the tradition that had reached Job, a great serpent, like the Egyptian Apepi (Apophis), had borne a part. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew By His breathבְּ֭רוּחוֹ (bə·rū·ḥōw) Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit the skies שָׁמַ֣יִם (šā·ma·yim) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky were cleared; שִׁפְרָ֑ה (šip̄·rāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8235: Fairness, clearness (of sky) His hand יָ֝ד֗וֹ (yā·ḏōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 3027: A hand pierced חֹֽלֲלָ֥ה (ḥō·lă·lāh) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play the fleeing בָּרִֽיחַ׃ (bā·rî·aḥ) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 1281: A fugitive, the serpent serpent. נָחָ֥שׁ (nā·ḥāš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5175: A serpent Links Job 26:13 NIVJob 26:13 NLT Job 26:13 ESV Job 26:13 NASB Job 26:13 KJV Job 26:13 BibleApps.com Job 26:13 Biblia Paralela Job 26:13 Chinese Bible Job 26:13 French Bible Job 26:13 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 26:13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished (Jb) |
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