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Verse Job 26:2. _HOW HAST THOU HELPED_ HIM] This seems a species of
irony. How wonderfully hast thou counselled the unskilful and
strengthened the weak! Alas for you! ye could not give what ye did no...
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HOW HAST THOU HELPED HIM THAT IS WITHOUT POWER? - It has been doubted
whether this refers to Job himself, the two friends of Bildad, or to
the Deity. Rosenmuller. The connection, however, seems to dem...
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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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BEGINNING OF JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD. He speaks sarcastically of the
helpfulness and instructiveness of Bildad's speech. He must have been
inspired (Job 26:4)!...
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_how savest thou_?] Rather, how HAST THOU SAVED? i. e. succoured....
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Job sarcastically expresses his admiration of Bildad's speech, and
gratitude for the help it has been to him....
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HOW HAST THOU HELPED HIM, &C.— _Whom hast thou been helping? him who
hast no power: For whom hast thou gotten a victory? the arm which hath
no strength,_ Job 26:3. _To whom hast thou been giving couns...
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D. GREATNESS AND GOODNESS OF GOD (Job 26:1-14)
1. What a giant of comfort Bildad has been! (sarcasm) (Job 26:1-4)
TEXT 26:1-4
26 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,
2 How hast thou helped him that is with...
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_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, powerles...
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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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_Him that is_ WITHOUT POWER] i.e. Job himself....
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Bildad’s interruption did not impress Job. Such words would not help
Job, who was still suffering. And Job thought that Bildad’s
description of God was very poor. Job had studied wisdom (chapter 28)....
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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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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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(a) How hast thou helped [him that is] without power? [how] (b) savest
thou the arm [that hath] no strength?
(a) You concluded nothing, for neither did you help me while destitute
of all help, nor ye...
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(1) В¶ But Job answered and said, (2) How hast thou helped him that
is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? (3)
How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast...
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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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HOW HAST THOU HELPED [HIM THAT IS] WITHOUT POWER?.... This verse and
Job 26:3 either are to be understood of God, as many do, by reading
the words, "who hast thou helped? God" r? a fine advocate for h...
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How hast thou helped [him that is] without power? [how] savest thou
the arm [that hath] no strength?
Ver. 2. _How hast thou helped him that is without power?_] _q.d._
Full well hast thou done it, sur...
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_How hast thou helped him, that is without power?_ Thou hast helped
excellently! It is an ironical expression, implying quite the
contrary, that he had not helped at all. As if he had said, I am a
poo...
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How hast thou helped him that is without power? How fine, indeed, how
excellently well had Bildad shown himself a friend to Job, enfeebled
as the latter was with illness! HOW SAVEST THOU THE ARM THAT...
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A SHARP IRONICAL REPROOF...
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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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"WHAT. HELP YOU ARE TO THE WEAK!": Job declares that Bildad's counsel
and help have been absolutely worthless. JOB 26:2-3 "ABUNDANTLY
PROVIDED": "Speaking of the 'helpful insight' Bildad had 'abundant...
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1-4 Job derided Bildad's answer; his words were a mixture of
peevishness and self-preference. Bildad ought to have laid before Job
the consolations, rather than the terrors of the Almighty. Christ
kn...
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HOW HAST THOU HELPED? thou hast helped egregiously. It is an ironical
expression, implying the quite contrary, that he had not at all
helped. See the like, GENESIS 3:22 1 KINGS 18:27 1 CORINTHIANS 4:8...
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Job 26:2 helped H5826 (H8804) power H3581 saved H3467 (H8689) arm
H2220 no H3808 strength H5797
How hast tho
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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 26:2 HOW YOU HAVE HELPED... SAVED... COUNSELED...!
The presumed theological correctness of Bildad and the other two
friends rings hollow. In their defense of God, they have not helped...
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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 Kings 18:27; Isaiah 35:3; Isaiah 35:4; Isaiah 40:14; Isaiah 41:5;...