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Job 26

Job 26:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He stretcheth out
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
w the north
tsaphown (Hebrew #6828)
from 6845; properly, hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown)
KJV usage: north(-ern, side, -ward, wind).
Pronounce: tsaw-fone'
Origin: or tsaphon {tsaw-fone'}
over the empty place
tohuw (Hebrew #8414)
a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
KJV usage: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
Pronounce: to'-hoo
Origin: from an unused root meaning to lie waste
, and hangeth
talah (Hebrew #8518)
to suspend (especially to gibbet)
KJV usage: hang (up).
Pronounce: taw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
upon nothing
bliymah (Hebrew #1099)
(as indef.) nothing whatever
KJV usage: nothing.
Pronounce: bel-ee-mah'
Origin: from 1097 and 4100
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Psa. 104:2• 2Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: (Psa. 104:2)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Job 9:8• 8Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. (Job 9:8)
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Gen. 1:1‑2• 1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
 2And 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. (Gen. 1:1‑2)
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Psa. 24:2• 2For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. (Psa. 24:2)
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Psa. 104:2‑5• 2Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
 3Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
 4Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
 5Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. (Psa. 104:2‑5)
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Prov. 8:23‑27• 23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
 24When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
 25Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
 26While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
 27When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: (Prov. 8:23‑27)
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Isa. 40:22,26• 22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
 26Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. (Isa. 40:22,26)
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Isa. 42:5• 5Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: (Isa. 42:5)
• His sway in the heavens (ver. 7). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• “He stretcheth out the north over the empty place.” The ball-like canopy of the northern skies, where the pole-star is suspended over emptiness, has no pillars to support it. In these few words, and those following, Job seems to have anticipated the great facts of astronomy regarding the earth and the heavens. He “hangeth the earth upon nothing”; how immeasurably above the cosmogonies of the heathen philosophers are these few grand words! (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;