Job Chapter 26
From The Open Bible Project
26:1 Then Job answered,
26:2 "How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
- (a) You concluded nothing, for neither did you help me while destitute of all help, nor yet speak sufficiently on God�s behalf, who has no need for your defence.
- (b) But you do not apply it to the purpose.
26:3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
26:4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?
- (c) That is, moves you to speak this?
26:5 "Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
- (d) Job begins to declare the force of God�s power and providence in the mines and metals in the deep places of the earth.
26:6 [10] Sheol [See Job Footnotes 10] is naked before God, and [11] Abaddon [See Job Footnotes 11] has no covering.
- (e) There is nothing hidden in the bottom of the earth but he sees it.
- (f) Meaning, the grave in which things putrify.
26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
- (g) He causes the whole earth to turn about the North pole.
26:8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
26:9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
26:10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
- (h) That is, he hid the heavens which are called his throne.
- (i) So long as this world endures.
26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
- (k) Not that heaven has pillars to uphold it, but he speaks by a similitude as though he would say heaven itself is not able to abide his reproach.
26:12 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
26:13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
- (l) Which is a figure of stars shaped like a serpent, because of the crookedness.
26:14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
- (m) If these few things which we see daily with our eyes, declare his great power and providence, how much more would they appear, if we were to comprehend all his works.
