Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 26:14
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.
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
BUT HOW LITTLE. PORTION. 'tis but. whisper....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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)....
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...
הֶן ־אֵ֤לֶּה ׀ קְצֹ֬ות _דְּרָכָ֗יו_† וּ מַה ־שֵּׁ֣מֶץ
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...
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...
_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...
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...
(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 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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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. _...
Job 26:14 edges H7098 ways H1870 small H8102 whisper H1697 hear H8085 (H8738) thunder H7482 power H1369 understand...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
1 Corinthians 13:9; 1 Samuel 2:10; Isaiah 40:26; Job 11:7; Job 40:9
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...