Verse Job 26:12. _HE DIVIDETH THE SEA WITH HIS POWER_] Here is a manifest allusion to the passage of the Red Sea by the Israelites, and the overthrow of Pharaoh and his host, according to the opinion...
HE DIVIDETH THE SEA WITH HIS POWER - Herder renders this: By his power he scourgeth the sea, By his wisdom he bindeth its pride. Jerome (Vulgate), “By his power the seas are suddenly congregated tog...
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...
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 ...
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...
God's power and greatness in heaven and earth....
These verses probably read, 12. He quelleth the sea with his power, And by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab. 13. By his breath the heavens are bright, His hand pierceth the fleeing serpe...
HE DIVIDETH THE SEA WITH HIS POWER— _He shaketh the sea._ Schultens. _He appeaseth the sea by his power; by his wisdom he hath determined its extent._ Houbigant, who observes, that the sacred author h...
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...
_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,...
26:12 up (g-3) Some read 'stilleth.' Rahab. (h-16) Egypt. see ch. 9.13; Isaiah 30:7 ; Isaiah 51:9 ....
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...
Verses 11-13 seem to describe a particular event. The original language of the Book of Job is called Hebrew. To understand these verses we need to look at the Hebrew words. • The proud enemy in vers...
HE DIVIDETH THE SEA. — The word is taken in the two opposite senses of _stirring up_ and _calming;_ perhaps the latter is more appropriate to the context, which seems to speak of God’s _mastery_ over...
בְּ֭ כֹחֹו רָגַ֣ע הַ יָּ֑ם _וּ֝_†_בִ_†_תְבוּנָתֹ֗ו_
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...
Together, at the beginning, Genesis i. 9. Hebrew, "By his strength he has divided the sea; and by his wisdom he has pierced the proud, or Egypt." Rahab, (Haydock) or Rachab, is often put for Egypt; (P...
(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,...
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...
HE DIVIDETH THE SEA WITH HIS POWER,.... As at the first creation, when the waters were caused to go off the face of the earth, and were separated from it; and the one was called earth, and the other s...
He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud. Ver. 12. _He divideth the sea with his power_] _i.e._ With his strong winds causing tempests: see the like I...
_He divideth the sea with his power_ “By his power he raises tempests, which make great furrows in the sea, and divideth, as it were, one part of it from another;” _and by his understanding he smiteth...
He divideth the sea with His power, frightening up, arousing, its billows in frightful storms, AND BY HIS UNDERSTANDING HE SMITETH THROUGH THE PROUD, literally, "Rahab," a great monster of the deep. A...
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...
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...
THE PROUD: _ Heb._ pride...
God controls the oceans. We literally see this when Jesus calmed the sea. The term "Rahab" appears to refer to. pagan sea monster, and the idea could be that God is superior to all mythological repres...
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...
He speaks either, 1. Of God's dividing the Red Sea for the Israelites to pass over; and consequently the Hebrew word _rahab_, which here follows, and is translated _pride_, or the _proud_, is meant of...
Job 26:12 stirs H7280 (H8804) sea H3220 power H3581 understanding H8394 (H8675) H8394 breaks H4272 ...
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 26:11 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
_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...
Daniel 4:37; Exodus 14:21; Isaiah 2:12; Isaiah 51:15; Isaiah 51:9;...