To whom hast thou uttered words For whose instruction hast thou uttered these things? For mine? Dost thou think I do not know that which the meanest persons are not unacquainted with; that God is incomparably greater and better than his creatures? Whose spirit came from thee Who inspired thee with this profound discourse of thine?
Verse Job 26:4. _WHOSE SPIRIT CAME FROM THEE?_] Mr. _Good_ renders the verse thus: _From whom hast thou pillaged speeches? And whose_ _spirit hath issued forth from thee_? The retort is peculiarly se...
TO WHOM HAST THOU UTTERED WORDS? - Jerome renders this, Quem docere voluisti? “Whom do you wish to teach?” The sense is, “Do you attempt to teach me in such a manner, on such a subject? Do you take it...
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...
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)!...
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _neshamah_. App-16....
Job sarcastically expresses his admiration of Bildad's speech, and gratitude for the help it has been to him....
_to whom hast thou uttered words_?] Job refers to himself and asks, Who is it that thou hast spoken such things to? The same feeling of conscious superiority to his friends and disdain of the instruct...
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...
_TO WHOM HAST THOU UTTERED WORDS? AND WHOSE SPIRIT CAME FROM THEE?_ For whose instruction were thy words meant? If for me, I know the subject (God's omnipotence) better than my instructor: Job 26:5 i...
TO WHOM HAST THOU UTTERED WORDS?] i.e. surely not to Job who knows it already. 5-14. The manifestations of God's power and work in the world below, in earth and in heaven. Some scholars think these vv...
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....
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)....
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...
_(_4_)_ TO WHOM. — That is, “Is it not to one who had said the same thing himself? Was it not my own breath, my own teaching, that came forth from you?” He then proceeds to show that it is not only th...
אֶת ־מִ֭י הִגַּ֣דְתָּ מִלִּ֑ין וְ נִשְׁמַת ־מ
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...
“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...
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...
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit (c) came from thee? (c) That is, moves you to speak this?...
Life. Septuagint also seem to understand this of God. (Calmet) --- Job does not blame his friends for undertaking to approve the ways of Providence, but for condemning himself (St. Chrysostom) rashly,...
(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...
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...
TO WHOM HAST THOU UTTERED WORDS?.... That others know not; dost thou think thou art talking to an ignorant man? be it known to thee, that he knows as much, and can say as much of the Divine Being, of...
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? Ver. 4. _To whom hast thou uttered words?_] And, as thou thinkest, words weighty, and worthy of all acceptation, when in truth there...
To whom hast thou uttered words? Did Bildad really hope to strike Job with his empty talk? Did he realize that it would not make the slightest impression on him? AND WHOSE SPIRIT CAME FROM THEE? From...
A SHARP IRONICAL REPROOF...
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...
"AND WHOSE SPIRIT WAS EXPRESSED THROUGH YOU?": Job seems to be saying that obviously God was not speaking through Bildad, so whose "spirit" was speaking through him? Was he just parroting someone else...
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...
For whose instruction hast thou uttered these things? For mine? Dost thou think me to be so ignorant, that I do not know that which the meanest persons are not unacquainted with, to wit, that God is i...
Job 26:4 uttered H5046 (H8689) words H4405 spirit H5397 came H3318 (H8804) whose spirit - Job 20:3,...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 26:4 Job asks his friends to examine WHOSE HELP and WHOSE BREATH has been behind their words, so they won’t wrongly assume that they have spoken on God’s behalf....
_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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 12:3; 1 John 4:1; 1 Kings 22:23; 1 Kings 22:24;...
To whom — For whose instruction hast thou uttered these things? For mine? Dost thou think I do not know, that which the meanest persons are not unacquainted with; that God is incomparably greater and...