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Mark Dunagan Commentaries

Job 26:14

"Behold, these are the fringes of His ways": This is just. sample,. meager fringe of God's power. This is just the outside edge! "How faint. word we hear of Him!" "People are so distant from God that they heard only. whisper and obviously then cannot possibly fully comprehend all God's activities in His power" (Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 750). This seems to be. rebuke to Bildad who claimed to understand God's providence. "If one can see that the Lord's operations in nature are not to be fully fathomed by man, how much more His working among humanity? Since Zophar fails to come forward at this time, Job continues" (Jackson p. 61).

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See also Job 26:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 26:14. _LO, THESE_ ARE _PARTS OF HIS WAYS_] קצות _ketsoth, the_ _ends_ or _extremities_, the _outlines_, an _indistinct sketch_, of his eternal power and Godhead. _HOW LITTLE A PORTION IS...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LO, THESE ARE PARTS OF HIS WAYS - This is a small portion of his works. We see only the outlines, the surface of his mighty doings. This is still true. With all the advances which have been made in sc...

  • 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

    BUT HOW LITTLE. PORTION. 'tis but. whisper....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The verse reads, Lo these are the outskirts of his ways; And how small a whisper is that which we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand? The power of God is illustrated in t...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LO, THESE ARE PARTS OF HIS WAYS— _Lo! these are but the outlines of his paths; yet what a series of noble acts have we heard of him! but of the thundering of his mightiness, who can even bear the cont...

  • 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 (or Bildad), after thus depicting the marvels of God's working, declares that what he has said is but a faint whisper of His power....

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God has done great things. But we do not hear about all his great deeds. God is much greater than we can ever imagine (John 21:25)....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THESE ARE PARTS. — Literally, _ends_ — just the merest outskirts. For “is heard” we may render _do we hear;_ and for “the thunder of His power,” _the thunder of His mighty deeds._ We can only hear the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֶן ־אֵ֤לֶּה ׀ קְצֹ֬ות _דְּרָכָ֗יו_† וּ מַה ־שֵּׁ֣מֶץ

  • 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

    Lo, these [are] parts of his ways: but (m) how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? (m) If these few things which we see daily with our eyes, declare his...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Drop. This comparison is often applied to speech, Deuteronomy xxxii. 2., and Isaias lv. 10. If the little that we know of God's works give us such an exalted idea of his greatness, what should we thi...

  • 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,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS An interesting subject ariseth here, from the perusal of this chapter, in the departure of Bildad's discourse from the main point in question, by the instruction it gives to the ministers...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE MAJESTY OF GOD_ ‘The thunder of His power who can understand?’ Job 26:14 We come here to Job’s answer. I. THIS AS TO BILDAD OCCUPIES BUT ONE CHAPTER, WHICH IS CHARACTERISED FROM BEGINNING TO...

  • 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

    LO, THESE [ARE] PARTS OF HIS WAYS,.... This is the conclusion of the discourse concerning the wonderful works of God; and Job was so far from thinking that he had taken notice of all, or even of the c...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Lo, these [are] parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? Ver. 14. _Lo, these are parts of his ways_] Or rather, particles of his w...

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

    _Lo, these are parts of his ways_ But very small parcels even of those of his works which are visible to us. For it would be a vain and fruitless labour should I undertake to speak of all the wonders...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Lo, these are parts of His ways, just a few instances, accessible to our understanding, of His almighty power in the government of the world; BUT HOW LITTLE A PORTION IS HEARD OF HIM! What evidences o...

  • 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...

  • 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

    THESE ARE PARTS, or, _the extremities_, but small parcels, the outside and visible work. How glorious then are his visible and more inward perfections and operations! OF HIS WAYS, i.e. of his works. _...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 26:14 edges H7098 ways H1870 small H8102 whisper H1697 hear H8085 (H8738) thunder H7482 power H1369 understand...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Job 26:14 The mutual relations of physical science and religious faith. If it were possible for a solitary man to become the absolute master of all the provinces of physical science, he would be acqu...

  • 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

    _Lo, these are parts of His ways._ THE VEIL PARTLY LIFTED The least understood Being in the universe is God. Blasphemous would be any attempt, by painting or sculpture, to represent Him. Egyptian hie...

  • 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 Corinthians 13:9; 1 Samuel 2:10; Isaiah 40:26; Job 11:7; Job 40:9

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Parts — But small parcels, the outside and visible work. Portion — Of his power and wisdom, and providence. His Power — His mighty power, is aptly compared to thunder; in regard of its irresistible fo...

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