Mark Dunagan Commentaries
Job 25:2
Bildad does not respond to Job's arguments but rather asserts that God alone is Lord, and He should be respected, and He has established harmony and order in the heavens.
Bildad does not respond to Job's arguments but rather asserts that God alone is Lord, and He should be respected, and He has established harmony and order in the heavens.
Verse Job 25:2. _DOMINION AND FEAR_ ARE _WITH HIM_] God is an absolute sovereign; his fear is on all the hosts of heaven; and by his sovereignty he establishes and preserves order in the heavens, and...
DOMINION AND FEAR ARE WITH HIM - That is, God has a right to rule, and he ought to be regarded with reverence. The object of Bildad is to show that He is so great and glorious that it is impossible th...
CHAPTER 25 THE THIRD ADDRESS OF BILDAD _ 1. What God is (Job 25:1)_ 2. What man is (Job 25:4) Job 25:1. Bildad's arguments are exhausted. He has reached the end of his resources and Zophar does not...
JOB 25-27. offer a difficult critical problem. The phenomena which excite attention are these: (_a_) Bildad's speech is unusually short; (_b_) Job's reply contains a section (Job 26:5) very like Bilda...
_dominion and fear_ To God belongs rule, and His majesty inspires terror; He is the Omnipotent ruler over all. _his high places_ i. e. the heavens where He dwells. There He "maketh peace" through the...
DOMINION AND FEAR ARE WITH HIM— _Dominion and terror are his attendants, while he distributeth perfect justice from the height of his exaltation._ Heath. See Hosea 9:7. Micah 7:3....
C. MANA LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS (Job 25:1-6) 1. Man cannot argue with God. (Job 25:1-4) TEXT 25:1-4 1 THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID, 2 Dominion and fear are with him; He maketh...
_THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID,_ He tries to show Job's rashness (Job 23:3), by arguments borrowed from Eliphaz (Job 15:15), with which cf. Job 11:17. Verse 2. Power and terror - i:e., t...
BILDAD'S LAST SPEECH He ignores Job's questionings respecting the justice of God's rule, but declares His perfection and majesty, and the imperfection of all created things, repeating the theme of th...
WITH HIM] i.e. with God. HE MAKETH PEACE, etc.] He keeps in order the hosts of heaven: cp. Isaiah 24:21; Daniel 10:13....
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 25 BILDAD INTERRUPTS GOD I...
These verses are correct. God is powerful. He is the ruler of heaven. Everybody should respect him. He has a vast army of angels. (Angels are God’s servants from heaven.) The angels obey God’s command...
DOMINION AND FEAR ARE WITH HIM. — He is absolute in sovereignty and terrible in power, so that even in His high places, and among His celestial hosts, He maintaineth peace and harmony....
הַמְשֵׁ֣ל וָ פַ֣חַד עִמֹּ֑ו עֹשֶׂ֥ה שָׁ֝לֹ֗ום...
XXI. THE DOMINION AND THE BRIGHTNESS Job 25:1 BILDAD SPEAKS THE argument of the last chapter proceeded entirely on the general aspect of the question whether the evil are punished in proportion to...
HOW CAN MAN BE JUST BEFORE GOD? Job 25:1 Bildad's closing speech adds little to the controversy. He suggests simply that Job's vindications of himself do not imply that he is righteous before God, a...
The answer of Bildad is characterized by its brevity, and by the fact that he did not set himself to argue the matter with Job. It is a manifest weakening in the controversy on the side of the friends...
(a) Dominion and fear [are] with him, he maketh peace in his high places. (a) His purpose is to prove that although God may try and afflict the just, yet soon after he sends prosperity, and because h...
_Places. Directing all the heavenly bodies with perfect harmony. (Calmet)_...
(1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places. (3) Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise...
_PEACE ON EARTH A GIFT FROM HEAVEN_ ‘He maketh peace in His high places.’ Job 25:2 A great truth lies deep in these words, that peace is a creation; and all creation is an attribute of God. ‘He mak...
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...
DOMINION AND FEAR [ARE] WITH HIM,.... Not with man, as Sephorno interprets it, as that with him is power to rule over the imagination (the evil figment of his heart) to choose the good, and refuse the...
Dominion and fear [are] with him, he maketh peace in his high places. Ver. 2. _Dominion and fear are with him_] God is therefore to be feared, because Lord over all. If an earthly king be so dread a...
_Dominion and fear are with him_ Absolute and sovereign power over all persons and things, so that it is both rebellion and madness to contend with him; and terror, which justly makes him dreadful to...
Dominion and fear are with Him, the awe through which God exercises His sovereign power; HE MAKETH PEACE IN HIS HIGH PLACES, even the heavens and all their host being subject to Him and bowing to His...
BILDAD REBUKES JOB AGAIN. Since Job had asserted his innocence in such emphatic terms, Bildad believed it incumbent upon him to reprove him, chiefly in two propositions, namely, that man cannot argue...
BILDAD'S REPLY THE GREATNESS OF GOD (vv.1-3) The brevity of Bildad's reply is evidence that he had no answer to Job's predicament. He confines himself rather to fundamental facts that were important...
DOMINION, i.e. absolute and sovereign power over all persons and things, with whom to contend is both rebellion and madness. FEAR, actively understood, or _terror_, i.e. that which justly makes him dr...
Job 25:2 Dominion H4910 (H8687) fear H6343 makes H6213 (H8802) peace H7965 places H4791 Dominion -...
Job 25:2 The most beautiful word that ever hung upon the mouth of man is peace, because it is sweetness to his fellow-men, and it makes sacrifice to God. Many summers and many winters of life go to r...
CONTENTS: Bildad's third discourse on Job's case. CHARACTERS: God, Bildad, Job. CONCLUSION: Man cannot, in himself, be justified before God for he has no merit of his own to extenuate his guilt. KE...
Job 25:4. _How can man be justified with God?_ Bildad asks a question which he himself could not answer; but we have the proper answer from the living oracle, Job 42:8. “Take seven bullocks, and offer...
_Dominion and fear are with Him._ IDEAS OF GOD AND MAN I. Most exalted ideas of god. He speaks of Him-- 1. As the head of all authority. “Dominion and fear are with Him.” 2. As the maintainer of a...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 25:1 Bildad’s words represent the final speech of the three friends. The friends have argued that their theological understanding and application represent God’s perspective. They have...
_THIRD SPEECH OF BILDAD THE SHUHITE_ His speech either a very abortive one, or it includes, as some think, the following chapter from the fifth verse to the end, the first four verses of that chapter...
EXPOSITION JOB 25:1 Far from accepting Job's challenge, and grappling with the difficulty involved in the frequent, if not universal, prosperity of the wicked. Bildad, in his weak reply, entirely avo...
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said [concerning God], Dominion and fear are with him, he makes peace in his high places. Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light aris...
1 Chronicles 29:11; 1 Chronicles 29:12; 2 Corinthians 5:18; Colossians 1:20;...
Dominion — Sovereign power over all persons and things. Fear — Terror, that which justly makes him dreadful to all men, and especially to all that undertake to dispute with him. He — This clause, as w...