Job 26
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Job: Who Can Understand God’s Majesty?
1Then Job answered:
2“How you have helped the powerless
and saved the arm that is feeble!
3How you have counseled the unwise
and provided fully sound insight!
4To whom have you uttered these words?
And whose spirit spoke through you?
5The dead tremble—
those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
6Sheol is naked before God,
and Abaddon has no covering.
7He stretches out the north over empty space;
He hangs the earth upon nothing.
8He wraps up the waters in His clouds,
yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
9He covers the face of the full moon,
spreading over it His cloud.
10He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters
at the boundary between light and darkness.
11The foundations of heaven quake,
astounded at His rebuke.
12By His power He stirred the sea;
by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
13By His breath the skies were cleared;
His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways;
how faint is the whisper we hear of Him!
Who then can understand
the thunder of His power?”
Introduction
Job 26
This is Job's short reply to Bildad's short discourse, in which he is so far from contradicting him that he confirms what he had said, and out-does him in magnifying God and setting forth his power, to show what reason he had still to say, as he did (Job 13:2), "What you know, the same do I know also." I. He shows that Bildad's discourse was foreign to the matter he was discoursing of - though very true and good, yet not to the purpose (Job 26:2-4). II. That it was needless to the person he was discoursing with; for he knew it, and believed it, and could speak of it as well as he and better, and could add to the proofs which he had produced of God's power and greatness, which he does in the rest of his discourse (Job 26:5-13), concluding that, when they had both said what they could, all came short of the merit of the subject and it was still far from being exhausted (Job 26:14).
Cross-references: Job 13:2 · Job 26:2 · Job 26:5 · Job 26:14