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New American Standard Bible

Job 9:6

"It is He who shakes the earth from its place, And its pillars tremble;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Astronomy;   Earth;   Earthquakes;   God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Earthquakes;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Pillar;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Providence of God;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Pillar;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Earthquake;   Pillar;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Earth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He shakes the earth from its placeso that its pillars tremble.
Hebrew Names Version
Who shakes the eretz out of its place; The pillars of it tremble;
King James Version
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
English Standard Version
who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
New Century Version
He shakes the earth out of its place and makes its foundations tremble.
New English Translation
he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble;
Amplified Bible
Who shakes the earth out of its place, And its pillars tremble;
World English Bible
Who shakes the earth out of its place; The pillars of it tremble;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Hee remooueth the earth out of her place, that the pillars thereof doe shake.
Legacy Standard Bible
The One who shakes the earth out of its place,And its pillars tremble;
Berean Standard Bible
He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.
Contemporary English Version
God can shake the earth loose from its foundations
Complete Jewish Bible
He shakes the earth from its place; its supporting pillars tremble.
Darby Translation
Who shaketh the earth out of its place, and the pillars thereof tremble;
Easy-to-Read Version
He can shake the earth, and it will tremble down to its foundations.
George Lamsa Translation
He shakes the earth out of its foundations, and its inhabitants tremble.
Good News Translation
God sends earthquakes and shakes the ground; he rocks the pillars that support the earth.
Lexham English Bible
He is the one who shakes the earth from its place, and its pillars tremble.
Literal Translation
who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He remoueth the earth out of hir place, that hir pilers shake withall.
American Standard Version
That shaketh the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof tremble;
Bible in Basic English
Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
King James Version (1611)
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, & the pillars thereof tremble:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He remoueth the earth out of her place, that the pillers therof shake withall.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.
English Revised Version
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Which stirith the erthe fro his place, and the pilers therof schulen `be schakun togidere.
Update Bible Version
That shakes the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof tremble;
Webster's Bible Translation
Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and its pillars tremble.
New King James Version
He shakes the earth out of its place, And its pillars tremble;
New Living Translation
He shakes the earth from its place, and its foundations tremble.
New Life Bible
He shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars shake.
New Revised Standard
who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who shaketh the earth, out of its place, and, the pillars thereof, shudder;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Revised Standard Version
who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
Young's Literal Translation
Who is shaking earth from its place, And its pillars move themselves.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who shakes the earth out of its place, And its pillars tremble;

Contextual Overview

1 Then Job responded, 2 "In truth I know that this is so; But how can a person be in the right with God? 3 "If one wished to dispute with Him, He could not answer Him once in a thousand times. 4 "Wise in heart and mighty in strength, Who has defied Him without harm? 5 "It is God who removes the mountains, and they do not know how, When He overturns them in His anger. 6 "It is He who shakes the earth from its place, And its pillars tremble;7 Who commands the sun not to shine, And puts a seal on the stars; 8 Who alone stretches out the heavens, And tramples down the waves of the sea; 9 Who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the constellations of the south. 10 "It is He who does great things, the unfathomable, And wondrous works without number.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shaketh: Isaiah 2:19, Isaiah 2:21, Isaiah 13:13, Isaiah 13:14, Isaiah 24:1, Isaiah 24:19, Isaiah 24:20, Haggai 2:6, Haggai 2:21, Hebrews 12:26, Revelation 20:11

the pillars: Job 26:11, Job 38:4-7, 1 Samuel 2:8, Psalms 75:3, Psalms 114:7, Jeremiah 4:24, Joel 2:10

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:22 - foundations Judges 5:4 - the earth Psalms 29:8 - shaketh Psalms 46:3 - mountains Psalms 60:2 - made Psalms 97:4 - the earth Jeremiah 10:10 - at

Cross-References

Genesis 4:14
"Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and I will be hidden from Your face, and I will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."
Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. On the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
Genesis 9:2
"The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky; on everything that crawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. They are handed over to you.
Genesis 9:3
"Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, as I gave the green plant.
Genesis 9:5
"I certainly will require your lifeblood; from every animal I will require it. And from every person, from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person.
Genesis 9:6
"Whoever sheds human blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made mankind.
Genesis 9:12
God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations;
Genesis 9:14
"It shall come about, when I make a cloud appear over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
Genesis 9:26
He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And may Canaan be his servant.
Genesis 9:27
"May God enlarge Japheth, And may he live in the tents of Shem; And may Canaan be his servant."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which shaketh the earth out of her place,.... Can do it, and will do it at the last day, when it shall be utterly broken down, clean dissolved, and reel to and fro like a drunkard, and be removed as a cottage, and which John in a vision saw flee away from the presence of him that sat upon the throne, Isaiah 24:19; for this cannot be understood of earthquakes in common, which are only partial, and do not remove the earth out of its place, only shake some parts of it; and this may also refer to the time of the flood, when the earth received some change and alteration in its situation, as Mr. Burnet in his Theory of the Earth observes; and the Apostle Peter suggests something of this kind, when he distinguishes the present earth from the former, which he says stood out of the water and in it, but the present earth not so, but is reserved for fire, 2 Peter 3:5;

and the pillars thereof tremble; the centre or lower parts of it, see

Psalms 75:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which shaketh the earth out of her place - This evidently refers to violent convulsions of nature, as if the earth were to be taken away. Objects on the earth’s surface become displaced, and convulsion seems to seize the world. The Septuagint renders this, “who shaketh that which is under the heavens from its foundations” - ἐκ Θεμελίων ek themeliōn. The change in the Hebrew would be very slight to authorize this rendering.

And the pillars thereof tremble - In this place the earth is represented as sustained like a building by pillars or columns. Whether this is a mere poetic representation, or whether it describes the actual belief of the speaker in regard to the structure of the earth, it is not easy to determine. I am inclined to think it is the former, because in another place where he is speaking of the earth, he presents his views in another form, and more in acoordance with the truth (see the notes at Job 26:7): and because here the illustration is evidently taken from the obvious and perceived effects of an earthquake. It would convulse and agitate the pillars of the most substantial edifice, and so it seemed to shake the earth, as if its very supports would fall.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 9:6. The pillars thereof tremble. — This also refers to an earthquake, and to that tremulous motion which sometimes gives warning of the approaching catastrophe, and from which this violent convulsion of nature has received its name. Earthquakes, in Scripture language, signify also violent commotions and disturbances in states; mountains often signify rulers; sun, empires; stars, petty states. But it is most likely that the expressions here are to be understood literally.


 
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