King James Version

Job 26:7

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

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נֹטֶ֣הnotehspreadנָטָהverb, qal, participle, absolute — “spread”, a verb used as a describing wordH5186to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application[phrase] afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, o…צָפ֣וֹןtsafonnorthצָפוֹןnoun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “north”, the ordinary formH6828properly, hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as aquarter (gloomy and unknown)north(-ern, side, -ward, wind).עַלalaboveעַלpreposition — “above”H5921above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applicationsabove, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of,…תֹּ֑הוּtohvvainתֹּהוּnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “vain”, the ordinary formH8414a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vainconfusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.תֹּ֥לֶהtolehhangתָּלָהverb, qal, participle, absolute — “hang”, a verb used as a describing wordH8518to suspend (especially to gibbet)hang (up).אֶ֝֗רֶץeretsearthאֶרֶץnoun, common, both genders, singular, absolute — “earth”, the ordinary formH776the earth (at large, or partitively a land)[idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.עַלalaboveעַלpreposition — “above”H5921above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applicationsabove, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of,…בְּלִיbelinothingבְּלִימָהparticle, negative — “nothing”H1099(as indefinitely) nothing whatevernothing.מָֽהmahnothingבְּלִימָהparticle, interrogative — “nothing”H1099(as indefinitely) nothing whatevernothing.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

He stretcheth out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth over nothing.

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American Standard Version (1901)

He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Young’s Literal Translation

Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,

World English Bible

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

Darby Translation

He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;

Douay-Rheims

He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

He stretcheth out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth over nothing.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and he upon nothing hangs the earth;

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἐκτείνων βορέαν ἐπʼ οὐδὲν, κρεμάζων γῆν ἐπὶ οὐδενός.