Job 26:1
_BUT JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOW HAST THOU HELPED HIM THAT IS WITHOUT POWER? HOW SAVEST THOU THE ARM THAT HATH NO STRENGTH?_ Without power ... no strength ... no wisdom. The negatives are used instead of the positives, powerlessness, etc., designedly (so Isaiah 31:8; Deuteronomy 32:21, "That which is not God ... those which a... [ Continue Reading ]
_TO WHOM HAST THOU UTTERED WORDS? AND WHOSE SPIRIT CAME FROM THEE?_ For whose instruction were thy words meant? If for me, I know the subject (God's omnipotence) better than my instructor: Job 26:5 is a sample of Job's knowledge of it. WHOSE SPIRIT - not that of God (Job 32:8): nay, rather, the s... [ Continue Reading ]
_DEAD THINGS ARE FORMED FROM UNDER THE WATERS, AND THE INHABITANTS THEREOF._ As before, in Job 9:1; Job 12:1, Job had shown himself not inferior to the friends in ability to describe God's greatness, so now he describes at as manifested in hell (the world of the dead), Job 26:5; on earth, Job 26:7;... [ Continue Reading ]