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Sheol (the place of the dead) is naked before God, and Abaddon (the place of destruction) has no covering [from His eyes].

He it is Who spreads out the northern skies over emptiness and [a]hangs the earth upon or over nothing.

He holds the waters bound in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once], and the cloud is not rent under them.

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  1. Job 26:7 For millenniums, various theories of what supports the earth—elephants, giants, and other fantastic means—were accepted by mankind as truth. The Bible made no such absurd error. How could Job, more than 3,000 years ago, possibly have known that God “hangs the earth upon or over nothing,” except by divine inspiration?

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