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Job 26:6
6 Hell [sha'owl] is naked [`arowm] before him, and destruction ['abaddown] hath no covering [kacuwth]. KJV-Interlinear
6 'Naked is Sheol before Him And Abaddon has no covering. NASB
Within these verses there is no reference to Paradise, which is one of the four compartments of Hades. Hades is the general reference to the underworld. The other three compartments are Tartarus, Torments, and the Abyss.
Torments is the holding place for all unbelievers. Tartarus is the holding place for all of the half-angel, half-man products of Genesis six. It is the destination of the defeated gods of Greek mythology. The Abyss is the deepest and darkest of the habitations of Hades, and it holds all of the really bad demon angels. Their character is identified by the name of their general, Abaddon, which means destruction in its worst possible sense.
Abaddon is sometimes used as the name for hell or destruction, Prov. 15:11 and Psa. 88:11, and as the name of the demon leader of the demons in the Abyss from Rev. 9. The names here are used to identify the residences of the dead. And more specifically those demons of extreme ancient times.
Even in their bodiless form, as shadows or ghosts of the deep underworld, they all still possess life or a consciousness which allows them to experience extreme fear from the only source of fear, which is God.
Nothing else in existence can bring fear in such a manner. Everything else in existence has no power, no strength in which to cast any type of control over life and/or death.
The deepest most darkest recesses of the Abyss, house the worst of the worst of creatures. And even in their hiding places, they are naked, they have no covering, no shield, and are totally exposed to Gods eyes. They cannot hide. They cannot escape the eyes or reach of God.
Such are the extremes of Gods dominion. There is nothing so far, so deep, so dark, as to escape the sovereignty or command of God.
Anyone who presumes that God is not interested in them, that God is asleep, that they can somehow get past Gods observation, are indeed the dumbest of the dumb.
And that is the nature of arrogance. It allows the imagination to paint a picture of the absurd into the mind of the spiritually negative, and then that picture becomes their reality. A false reality which is nothing more than a shadow, and then within that shadow which has no substance, they become easily offended, easily boastful, easily intimidated, easily affected by all ranges of emotions. And over what? Nothing. And nothing has become the god of the spiritually deficient person.
And unfortunately it isn't until one leaves this life, that the real realities of truth become apparent.
