Job 26:5

"Will the giants be annihilated? Let us not be surprised if God spares them, since He has not destroyed the giants. And so that it is not objected that they are 'thrown into hell, he adds that God sees the underworld. Nevertheless he has assigned to them that place which they occupy according to their merits; He knows who he is, and where they are today, or where they should be. But he never removes them from his presence, because in his eyes everything is exposed. We must here hear in the same sense, and the giants of whom he has just spoken, and the proud consolers. "Under the waters also those who are like them; After these words, "under the waters," must we imply: are they retained, or some other analogous expression?

"Behold, giants groan under the waters." After proposing the division that he made between power and wisdom, Job puts forward his evidence. He distinguishes the deep and the underworld. Both those that live in the deep of the sea, even if they are of tremendous size (and for this reason he calls them "giants," which we understand as "wild beasts") and those in the underworld itself (which prevents the sight of viewers as if in a thick fog)—both these realms remain constantly within the realm of God's power and exposed to his eyes. "Behold, giants groan under the waters." The Greek text reads, "Will the giants receive the service of the midwife under the waters, and in their neighbor?" This must be interpreted as asking whether the dead will resurrect if they are under the waters on earth. In saying "they will resurrect," the thought is that "it will be as if they had the service of a midwife." It is interpreted according to the metaphor of a woman giving birth. The meaning is this, "The art of midwifery takes the child out of the womb." If so, is it possible to raise the dead from the underworld, when this realm belongs only to God? "The underworld is naked before him." It is impossible, he says, to hold back the dead when God wants to resurrect them. Only at his command [the earth] is forced to throw up those which it has devoured. "There is no cover to perdition." Even though [the underworld] is covered by the thickness of darkness, it appears transparently before the eyes of the Almighty.

Lo, the giants groan under the waters. For it was fitting that by rebuking he should first beat down the swelling of earthly wisdom, and by instruction afterwards pass on to words replete with mysteries. Thus by 'giants,' either apostate Angels, or all proud men may without objection be understood. For hence it is said by the Prophet, The dead shall not live, the giants shall not rise up again. For whom does he call 'the dead' saving sinners, and whom does he designate 'giants' save those, who over and above take pride in sin. Now the former do 'not live,' because by sinning they have forfeited the life of righteousness; these latter too 'cannot rise up again' after death, because, after their transgression being swoln with pride, they do not have recourse to the remedies of penitence. Hence it is written again, The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. For whosoever forsakes the way of righteousness, to whose number does he join himself, saving to the number of the proud spirits? Now it is well said in opposition to the high-minded, Lo, the giants groan under the waters. As if it were expressed in plain speech; 'Wherefore on the score of knowledge should man be proud, when the abyss of ignorance keeps at the bottom the very proudest of the spirits of the Angels?' But if by the name of 'the giants' the powerful ones of this world are denoted, in 'the waters' we may have the multitudes represented, as John beareth witness, who saith, The waters, which thou seest, are peoples. Now against him that is filled with pride it is well spoken; Lo, the giants groan under the waters; because all that are high and lifted up, while in this life they long to attain the highest pitch of honours, groan under the burthens of peoples. For in proportion as a man is the higher lifted up here, he is burthened with so much the heavier cares. And to those very same people in mind and thoughts he is put under, whom in dignity he is put over. And by these words it is well shewn in brief that all pride lies prostrate on the ground by the mere act by which it lifts itself up on high, so as to be the more effectually bowed down beneath all things from the same cause, that it would fain be set above all. For man when he is lifted up in high stations, bears so many in number over him, as he rules persons put beneath him. But…