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Verse Job 26:10. _HE HATH COMPASSED THE WATERS WITH BOUNDS_] Perhaps
this refers merely to the _circle_ of the horizon, the line that
terminates light and commences darkness, called here עד תכלית
אור...
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HE HATH COMPASSED THE WATERS WITH BOUNDS - The word rendered
“compassed” (חוּג _chûg_), means to describe a circle - to
mark out with a compass; and the reference is to the form of the
horizon, which...
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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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The verse reads,
He hath drawn as a circle a bound upon the face of the waters,
At the confines of light and darkness.
The second clause is literally; _even to the confines of light
with_(or, by) _...
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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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HE HATH COMPASSED THE WATERS WITH BOUNDS— _He hath set a circle as a
boundary upon the face of the waters, even to the extremity of light
with darkness; i.e._ to the very edge where light and darkness...
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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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26:10 circle (f-6) Or 'ordained a circle.'...
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Davidson renders, 'He hath drawn as a circle a bound upon the face of
the waters (of the sea) at the confines of light and darkness': i.e.
God has marked out the horizon which forms to us the limit of...
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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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HE HATH COMPASSED THE WATERS WITH BOUNDS. — Rather, _He hath
described a circle upon the face of the waters, unto the confines of
light and darkness._ The phenomenon described is that of the horizon
a...
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חֹֽק ־חָ֭ג עַל ־פְּנֵי ־מָ֑יִם עַד
־תַּכְלִ֖י
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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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He hath (h) compassed the waters with bounds, until the (i) day and
night come to an end.
(h) That is, he hid the heavens which are called his throne.
(i) So long as this world endures....
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_End. Till the end of the world, the ocean will respect these limits.
(Haydock) --- The ancients looked upon it as a continual miracle that
the world was not deluged, as the waters are higher than the...
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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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HE HATH COMPASSED THE WATERS WITH BOUNDS,.... Not the waters above the
firmament, compassed by that, as if Job was contemplating on and
discoursing about what is done in the heavens above; though the...
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_He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night
come to an end._
Ver. 10. _He hath compassed the waters with bounds_] _Decreto
circinavit superficiem aquarum_ (Tremel.). He hath as...
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_He hath compassed the waters_ Namely, of the sea; for of the waters
of the clouds he had just spoken; _with bounds_ With rocks and shores,
and principally his own decree, formed at the creation, and...
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He hath compassed the waters with bounds, literally, "He has rounded
off a circular boundary on the face of the waters," the horizon
appearing as a bounding circle, UNTIL THE DAY AND NIGHT COME TO AN...
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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...
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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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UNTIL THE DAY AND NIGHT:
_ Heb._ until the end of light with darkness...
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JOB 26:10 The term "circle" here may refer to the horizon, which
appears to be circular, where light and darkness begin and end when
the sun arises in the east and sets in the west. Or the term "circl...
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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 WATERS, to wit, of the sea; for of the upper waters coming out of
the clouds he spoke before. WITH BOUNDS; which are partly the rocks
and shores, and principally God's appointment, made at the fir...
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Job 26:10 circular H2328 (H8804) horizon H2706 face H6440 waters H4325
boundary H8503 light H216 darkness H2822...
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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 26:5 The state or realm of the DEAD is not visible
to humanity (it is UNDER THE WATERS), but it is NAKED and HAS NO
COVERING before God ...
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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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Genesis 8:22; Isaiah 54:10; Isaiah 54:9; Jeremiah 5:22; Job 38:8;...