The pillars
5982 {5982} Primeעַמּוּד`ammuwd{am-mood'}
From H5975; a column (as standing); also a stand, that is, platform.
of heaven
8064 {8064} Primeשָׁמַיִםshamayim{shaw-mah'-yim}
The second form being dual of an unused singular; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve).
tremble
7322 {7322} Primeרוּףruwph{roof}
A primitive root; properly to triturate (in a mortar), that is, (figuratively) to agitate (by concussion).
z8787 <8787> Grammar
Stem - Polel (See H8847) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 72
and are astonished
8539 {8539} Primeתָּמַהtamahh{taw-mah'}
A primitive root; to be in consternation.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
at his reproof.
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x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses. |
Job 26:11
_ _ pillars — poetically for the mountains which seem to bear up the sky (Psalms 104:32).
_ _ astonished — namely, from terror. Personification.
_ _ his reproof — (Psalms 104:7). The thunder, reverberating from cliff to cliff (Habakkuk 3:10; Nahum 1:5). |
Job 26:11
Pillars — Perhaps the mountains which by their height and strength seem to reach and support the heavens. Astonished — When God reproveth not them, but men by them, manifesting his displeasure by thunders, or earthquakes. |
Job 26:11
The (k) pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
(k) Not that heaven has pillars to uphold it, but he speaks by a similitude as though he would say heaven itself is not able to abide his reproach. |
- pillars:
1 Samuel 2:8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth [are] the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
Psalms 18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Haggai 2:21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
Hebrews 12:26-27 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. ... And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
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- are astonished:
Job 15:15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
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