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Job 26:11

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 to heaven. At God's rebuke, when His voice of thunder rolls, or when earthquakes shake the earth, they tremble with terror of His majesty,

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See also Job 26:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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 ...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TREMBLE... ASTONISHED. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_. App-6....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The mountains (see on Job 9:6) tremble in the earthquake....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE PILLARS of HEAVEN TREMBLE. — The phenomenon of storm and tempest is alluded to....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עַמּוּדֵ֣י שָׁמַ֣יִם יְרֹופָ֑פוּ וְ֝ יִתְמְה֗וּ מִ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The pillars of heaven, the great mountains which seem to bear on their summits the great vault of heaven, TREMBLE AND ARE ASTONISHED AT HIS REPROOF, both by reason of earthquakes and by the awe-inspir...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A Description Of God's Surpassing Glory. Job now, in order to refute Bildad more thoroughly, shows his understanding of the almighty power of God both in the creation and in the government of the wor...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    The "pillars of heaven" probably refer to the mountains that figuratively appear to support the sky. God can even shake the mighty mountains. __...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 26:11 pillars H5982 heaven H8064 tremble H7322 (H8787) astonished H8539 (H8799) rebuke H1606 pillars -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 2:8; 2 Peter 3:10; Haggai 2:21; Hebrews 12:26; Hebrews 12:27;

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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