Job 26:6 - Exposition

Hell is naked before him ; i.e. "can hide nothing from his eyes"—shows all its inmost recesses. And destruction hath no covering; rather, Abaddon hath no covering (see the Revised Version). Abaddon is sometimes "destruction," sometimes "the angel of the bottomless pit" ( Revelation 9:11 ), sometimes "the bottomless pit itself" ( Proverbs 15:11 ). Here the last of these three senses seems to suit best—the deepest depth of the bottomless pit is no secret to God," but "naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do" ( Hebrews 4:13 )