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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Job 26:8

He bindeth up the waters Those fluid and heavy bodies, pressing downward with great force; in his thick clouds As it were in bags, keeping them there suspended often for a long time; and the cloud is not rent under them But sustains them, notwithstanding their great weight, so that they do not burst forth all at once, and fall suddenly and violently upon the earth, but distil in dews, drops, and showers, to moisten, refresh, and fertilize it in due season.

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See also Job 26:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 26:8. _HE BINDETH UP THE WATERS_] Drives the aqueous particles together, which were raised by evaporation, so that, being condensed, they form clouds which float in the atmosphere, till, me...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HE BINDETH UP THE WATERS IN HIS THICK CLOUDS - That is, he seems to do it, or to collect the waters in the clouds, as in bottles or vessels. The clouds appear to hold the waters, as if bound up, until...

  • 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 ...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The wonder of the clouds, floating reservoirs of water, which do not burst under the weight of waters which they contain. Men bind up water in skins or bottles, God binds up the rain floods in the thi...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    God's power and greatness in heaven and earth....

  • 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

    The retention of rain in the clouds as in a skin or bag: cp. Job 38:37....

  • 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’s design of this world is wonderful. We need the rain for our crops. Nothing holds the rain in the sky. But the water in the clouds is often very heavy....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HE BINDETH UP THE WATERS. — The idea of the waters being bound up in the clouds, so that the clouds are not rent thereby, is similar to that in Genesis 1:7. The conception is that of a vast treasury o...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    צֹרֵֽר ־מַ֥יִם בְּ עָבָ֑יו וְ לֹא ־נִבְקַ֖ע

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Clouds, as in a vessel or garment, Proverbs xxx. 4._...

  • 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,...

  • 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

    HE BINDETH UP THE WATERS IN HIS THICK CLOUDS,.... The clouds are of his making; when he utters his voice, or gives the word of command, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and the vapours h...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. Ver. 8. _He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds_] Heb. Clouds, which yet have their name from thickness, beca...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    He bindeth up the waters in His thick clouds, shutting them in, bolding them suspended as in immense containers; AND THE CLOUD IS NOT RENT UNDER THEM, it does not burst under the enormous pressure of...

  • 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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Job is amazed at how the clouds can be full of water like waterskins, and yet remain suspended in air without releasing their water. __...

  • 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

    This also is a miraculous work of God, considering the nature of these waters, which are fluid and heavy, and pressing downward, especially being ofttimes there in great abundance; and withal, the qua...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 26:8 up H6887 (H8802) water H4325 clouds H5645 clouds H6051 broken H1234 (H8738) bindeth up -...

  • 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

    _He bindeth up the waters in His thick clouds._ WATER AND ITS WONDERFUL TRANSPORTATION BY CLOUDS The average quantity of aqueous vapour, or water held in the air, is estimated to be 54,460,000,000,00...

  • 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 26:5 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 ...

  • 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

    Genesis 1:6; Genesis 1:7; Isaiah 5:6; Jeremiah 10:13; Job 36:29;...

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