Job 26:5-13

These verses, remarkably, describe the entire universe: the underworld (vv. 5-6), the earth (v. 7), the sun/moon/stars (vv. 10, 13), the clouds between space and the deep (vv. 8-9), the deep (vv. 7-8, 10, 12), and the north/God’s throne (vv. 7, 9). I think that “the empty place” is the reference to the deep, which is empty except for one occupant (v. 13; Is. 27:1; Job 41:31). The “pillars of heaven” are as literal as the “pillars of the earth” (9:6, 1 Sam. 2:8, Ps. 75:3), and each support a celestial or terrestrial structure. Amazing what the ancients knew and modern monkeys do NOT (Job 8:8, 15:18; Ps. 119:100)!