Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



The very pillars of heaven tremble and quake at his reproof. Verse ConceptsPillarsRebukeTremblingMetaphorical Pillarsrebuking

The very pillars of heaven tremble and quake at his reproof. Verse ConceptsPillarsRebukeTremblingMetaphorical Pillarsrebuking

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth the water in his clouds, and the cloud is not broken under them. He holdeth back his stool, that it can not be seen, and spreadeth his clouds before it. read more.
He hath compassed the waters with certain bounds, until the day and night come to an end. The very pillars of heaven tremble and quake at his reproof. He filleth the sea with his power, and through his wisdom smiteth he the strength thereof. With his spirit hath he garnished the heavens, and with his hand hath he wounded the rebellious serpent. This is now a short sum of his doings. But who is able sufficiently to rehearse his works? Who can perceive and understand the thunder of his power?"

applied my mind to seek out and search for the knowledge of all things that are done under heaven. Such travail and labor hath God given to the children of men, to exercise themselves therein. Thus I have considered all the things that come to pass under the Sun, and lo, they are all but vanity and vexation of mind. The crooked cannot be made straight, and the faults cannot be numbered. read more.
I communed with mine own heart, saying, "Lo, I am come to a great estate, and have gotten more wisdom, than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem." Yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge, for thereunto I applied my mind: that I might know what were wisdom and understanding, what were error and foolishness. And I perceived that this also was but a vexation of mind: