Job 9 · Verse 6

Job 9:6

Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Job 9:6, King James Version

Job 9:6 in other translations

BSBHe shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.
WEBHe shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
ASVThat shaketh the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof tremble;
YLTWho is shaking earth from its place, And its pillars move themselves.
DARBYWho shaketh the earth out of its place, and the pillars thereof tremble;
BBEWho is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:
WebsterWho shaketh the earth out of her place, and its pillars tremble.

What does Job 9:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. The earth is regarded, poetically, as resting on pillars, which tremble in an earthquake (Psa 75:3; Is 24:20). The literal truth as to the earth is given (Job 26:7).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 9:1-13

In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied himself to be a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before him he pleaded guilty of sins more than could be counted; and if God should contend with him in judgment, he could not justify one out of a thousand, of all the thoughts, words, and actions of his life; therefore he deserved worse than all his present sufferings…

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Job 9:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הַמַּרְגִּ֣יזha.mar.Gizthe [one who] shakesH7264
אֶ֭רֶץ'E.retz[the] earthH776
מִמְּקוֹמָ֑הּmi.me.ko.Mahfrom place itsH4725
וְ֝עַמּוּדֶ֗יהָve.'a.mu.Dei.haand pillars itsH5982
יִתְפַלָּצֽוּן\׃yit.fa.la.Tzunthey tremble !H6426

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 9:6

  • Haggai 2:6

    For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

  • Psalms 75:3

    The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

  • Hebrews 12:26

    Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

  • Job 26:11

    The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

  • Isaiah 2:21

    To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

  • Job 38:4-7

    Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

  • Isaiah 2:19

    And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

  • Isaiah 13:13-14

    Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

  • Psalms 114:7

    Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

  • Haggai 2:21

    Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;

  • 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.

  • 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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
shaketh.
Isa 2:19,21; 13:13,14; 24:1,19,20; Hag 2:6,21; Heb 12:26; Re 20:11
the pillars.
26:11; 38:4-7; 1Sa 2:8; Ps 75:3; 114:7; Jer 4:24; Joe 2:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 9:5

    Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.

  • Job 9:6

    Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

  • Job 9:7

    Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

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Job 9:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Que remueve la tierra de su lugar, y hace temblar sus columnas:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Il remue la terre de sa place, et ses colonnes tremblent;
German
Elberfelder 1871		der die Erde aufbeben macht von ihrer Stätte, und ihre Säulen erzittern;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Qui commovet terram de loco suo, et columnæ ejus concutiuntur.