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Verse Job 26:11. _THE PILLARS OF HEAVEN TREMBLE_] This is probably a
poetical description either of thunder, or of an earthquake: -
"He shakes creation with his nod;
Earth, sea, and heaven, confess...
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THE PILLARS OF HEAVEN TREMBLE - That is, the mountains, which seem to
bear up the heavens. So, among the ancients. Mount Atlas was
represented as one of the pillars of heaven. Virgil speaks of “Atlas...
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CHAPTER 26JOB'S REPLY
_ 1. A sarcastic beginning (Job 26:1)_
2. Job also knows and can speak of the greatness of God (Job 26:5)
Job 26:1. You have helped me greatly, Bildad, me, who am without
power...
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CONCLUSION OF BILDAD'S SPEECH. Bildad pursues the theme of the
greatness of God, begun in Job 25:2.
The giants (Deuteronomy 2:11) tremble at God (Job 26:5). Rephaim ...
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TREMBLE... ASTONISHED. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_. App-6....
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The "pillars" of the heavens, if the conception be not wholly ideal,
may be the lofty mountains on which the heavens seem to rest, and
which, as they are lost in the clouds, are spoken of as belonging...
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God's power and greatness in heaven and earth....
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That Job has no need to be instructed regarding the greatness of God
he now shews, by entering upon an exhibition of its operations in
every sphere of that which exists, Hades, the Earth and Heaven, i...
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2. No mysteries are hidden from God. (Job 26:5-14)
(Some would attribute this section to Bildad.)
a. There is no close connection between it and the preceding verses.
TEXT 26:5-14
5 THEY THAT ARE DE...
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_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,...
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JOB'S EIGHTH SPEECH (JOB 26, 27)
1-4. Job taunts Bildad with the worthlessness of his remarks as a
solution of the problem.
2, 3, 4 are spoken ironically....
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The mountains (see on Job 9:6) tremble in the earthquake....
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 26
JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S...
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God is very powerful. He created the world by his words (Genesis
1:3-26). So God’s emotions are also powerful (Psalms 2:4-6). Nobody
can successfully oppose God....
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THE PILLARS of HEAVEN TREMBLE. — The phenomenon of storm and tempest
is alluded to....
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עַמּוּדֵ֣י שָׁמַ֣יִם יְרֹופָ֑פוּ וְ֝
יִתְמְה֗וּ מִ...
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XXII.
THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS
Job 26:1; Job 27:1
Job SPEAKS
BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm.
"How hast thou helped one without power!
How hast thou saved the strengthless...
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“THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS”
Job 26:1
Job taunts Bildad with his reply as having imparted no help or
thought. He then proceeds, Job 26:5, to give a description of God's
power as manifested in Hades, i...
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We come next to Job's answer. The reply to Bildad occupies but one
chapter, which is characterized from beginning to end by scorn for the
man who had no more to say. In a series of fierce exclamations...
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The (k) pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
(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 ab...
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_Heaven. The mountains are so styled by Pindar; and the poets
represent them supporting the heavens. Totum ferre potest humeris
minitantibus orbem. (Petronius) --- Yet others understand that power
whi...
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(5) В¶ Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the
inhabitants thereof. (6) Hell is naked before him, and destruction
hath no covering. (7) He stretcheth out the north over the empty
place,...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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THE PILLARS OF HEAVEN TREMBLE,.... Which may be understood either of
the air, the lower part of the heavens, which may be thought to be the
foundation, prop, and support of them, and is sometimes call...
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The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
Ver. 11. _The pillars of heaven tremble_] _i.e._ The angels, say
some, who tremble out of conscience of their own comparative
imperfec...
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_The pillars of heaven tremble_ Perhaps the mountains, which by their
height and strength seem to reach and support the heavens. _And are
astonished at his reproof_ When God reproveth not them, but me...
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BILDAD'S WORDS FUTILE IN JOB'S CASE
(vv.1-4)
Job begins a reply that continues through six Chapter s, and his
friends are totally silenced. His language is amazing, specially
considering the length...
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The "pillars of heaven" probably refer to the mountains that
figuratively appear to support the sky. God can even shake the mighty
mountains. __...
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5-14 Many striking instances are here given of the wisdom and power
of God, in the creation and preservation of the world. If we look
about us, to the earth and waters here below, we see his almighty...
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THE PILLARS OF HEAVEN; either,
1. Those mountains which by their height and strength may seem to
reach and support the heavens, as the poets said of Atlas; for this is
a poetical book, and there are...
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Job 26:11 pillars H5982 heaven H8064 tremble H7322 (H8787) astonished
H8539 (H8799) rebuke H1606
pillars -...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad. His faith in God.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends.
CONCLUSION: God is infinite and incomprehensible; man's capacities to
understand Him and all His ways are weak, the...
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Job 26:5. _Dead things,_ הרפאים _ha-raphaim,_ the raphaim _are
formed from under the waters._ SCHULTENS reads, _Manes orcinorum
intremiscunt, de subter aquis, et la habitatores eorum._ The manes of
th...
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_But Job answered and said._
THE TRANSCENDENT GREATNESS OF GOD
I. God appears incomprehensibly great in that portion of the universe
that is brought under human observation.
1. In connection with t...
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JOB 26:1 Job: The Power of God, Place of Wisdom, and Path of
Integrity. Up until now, the dialogue between Job and his three
friends has followed a pattern in which each speech by Job is followed
by r...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 26:11 The world reveals God’s POWER and
UNDERSTANDING as the one who created and governs everything. How,
then, can anyone who merely hears the THUNDER OF HIS POWER clai
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_JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD_
Job, more alive to Bildad’s want of sympathy than to the excellence
of his sentiments in regard to the Divine perfections, speaks somewhat
petulantly,—certainly with irony and...
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EXPOSITION
The long discourse of Job now begins, which forms the central and most
solid mass of the book. It continues through six chapters (Job
26-31.). In it Job, after hastily brushing aside Bildad...
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So Job answers now this little saying of Bildad. It's his third and
final answer to Job, and it's really nothing.
Job answered and said, How have you helped him that is without power?
how can you save...
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1 Samuel 2:8; 2 Peter 3:10; Haggai 2:21; Hebrews 12:26; Hebrews 12:27;
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Pillars — Perhaps the mountains which by their height and strength
seem to reach and support the heavens. Astonished — When God
reproveth not them, but men by them, manifesting his displeasure by
thun...