...the word of truth (Job xxvi. 6 — 14), " Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon NOTHING. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; and the cloud is not rent under them. He holdeth back...

...In that sublime poem called the Book of Job, the work of creation is invariably ascribed to God. " He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. OF CRBATION. Other accounts. BUFFON supposed that a comet, by a violent blow, struck off from the sun...

...treadeth upon the waves of the sea. He maketh Arcturus, Orion, Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. He covereth himself with. light as with a garment, he maketh the clouds his chariot, he walketh upon...

...do they know of what is ever before them, of even the visible works of his hands? How "he spreadeth the north over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing" [Job 16:7]; how he unites all the parts of this vast machine by a secret chain which cannot be broken?...

..."But he knoweth the way that I take; when he hath tested me, I shall come forth as gold" (23:10). 8. ive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the (26:7). 9. "Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!" (23:3). This...

...waters, and the inhabitants thereof. 6 Hell i.\ naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. 7 ervan Publishing 8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. 9 He holdeth...

...Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the ReubenitesandtheGadites'),andJob26.7('Hestretchethout the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing') to differ as widely from one another as do the texts themselves. Let us see what happens when Calvin...

...mentions, and even going so far as to call attention to the now conceded "empty place in the North." — "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing." (Job 26:7). He also presented an argument that the Bible is physiologically correct, and only modern...

...can measure the distance between the moon and sun, or moon and a planet. In Job xxvi. 7 Job says, " He stretcheth out the north over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing," plainly an allusion to the north star over the apex of the pyramid, also to transits of heavenly bodies,...

...in such texts as Job 26:7-8—we should submit to a God who can command the forces we cannot control ("He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing"). However, the catalog of human adynata cannot be termed persuasive. Newton had indeed explained the...