Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 25:3
Is there any number of his armies? (b) and upon whom doth not his light arise?
(b) Who can hide him from his presence?
Is there any number of his armies? (b) and upon whom doth not his light arise?
(b) Who can hide him from his presence?
Verse Job 25:3. _IS THERE ANY NUMBER OF HIS ARMIES?_] He has _troops_ innumerable; he can serve himself of all his creatures; every thing may be a means of _help_ or _destruction_, according to his Di...
IS THERE ANY NUMBER OF HIS ARMIES? - The armies of heaven; or the hosts of angelic beings, which are often represented as arranged or marshalled into armies; see the notes at Isaiah 1:9. The word whic...
CHAPTER 25 THE THIRD ADDRESS OF BILDAD _ 1. What God is (Job 25:1)_ 2. What man is (Job 25:4) Job 25:1. Bildad's arguments are exhausted. He has reached the end of his resources and Zophar does not...
JOB 25-27. offer a difficult critical problem. The phenomena which excite attention are these: (_a_) Bildad's speech is unusually short; (_b_) Job's reply contains a section (Job 26:5) very like Bilda...
_his armies_ The words still amplify the idea of the "dominion" and omnipotence of God. The armies that obey Him are innumerable. The reference is probably to the phenomena of the heavens by night; co...
AND UPON WHOM DOTH NOT HIS LIGHT ARISE?— _And who is there whom his brightness doth not surpass?_ Heath and Schultens....
C. MANA LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS (Job 25:1-6) 1. Man cannot argue with God. (Job 25:1-4) TEXT 25:1-4 1 THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID, 2 Dominion and fear are with him; He maketh...
_THEN ANSWERED BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND SAID,_ He tries to show Job's rashness (Job 23:3), by arguments borrowed from Eliphaz (Job 15:15), with which cf. Job 11:17. Verse 2. Power and terror - i:e., t...
BILDAD'S LAST SPEECH He ignores Job's questionings respecting the justice of God's rule, but declares His perfection and majesty, and the imperfection of all created things, repeating the theme of th...
ARMIES] e.g. the angels and the elements....
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 25 BILDAD INTERRUPTS GOD I...
These verses are correct. God is powerful. He is the ruler of heaven. Everybody should respect him. He has a vast army of angels. (Angels are God’s servants from heaven.) The angels obey God’s command...
IS THERE ANY NUMBER OF HIS ARMIES? — He is also so glorious that He dispenses of His glory to His innumerable hosts of angels. Glorious as they are, they but reflect His glory; and what then must not...
הֲ יֵ֣שׁ מִ֭סְפָּר לִ גְדוּדָ֑יו וְ עַל
XXI. THE DOMINION AND THE BRIGHTNESS Job 25:1 BILDAD SPEAKS THE argument of the last chapter proceeded entirely on the general aspect of the question whether the evil are punished in proportion to...
HOW CAN MAN BE JUST BEFORE GOD? Job 25:1 Bildad's closing speech adds little to the controversy. He suggests simply that Job's vindications of himself do not imply that he is righteous before God, a...
The answer of Bildad is characterized by its brevity, and by the fact that he did not set himself to argue the matter with Job. It is a manifest weakening in the controversy on the side of the friends...
_Soldiers. The works of the whole creation, particularly the stars and angels. (Menochius)_...
(1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places. (3) Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise...
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...
IS THERE ANY NUMBER OF HIS ARMIES?.... His armies in heaven, the heavenly host of angels, which are innumerable; there are more than twelve legions of them, thousand and ten thousand times ten thousan...
Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise? Ver. 3. _Is there any number of his armies?_] God is Lord of hosts; and, as the Rabbis well observe, he hath his upper force...
_Is there any number of his armies?_ Of his angels, and stars, and other creatures, all which are his hosts, wholly submitting themselves to his will, to be and to do whatever he pleases. And, therefo...
Is there any number of His armies, of whatever forces of angels and of heavenly powers He chooses to carry out His will? AND UPON WHOM DOTH HIS LIGHT ARISE? The great light of God's majesty surpasses...
BILDAD REBUKES JOB AGAIN. Since Job had asserted his innocence in such emphatic terms, Bildad believed it incumbent upon him to reprove him, chiefly in two propositions, namely, that man cannot argue...
BILDAD'S REPLY THE GREATNESS OF GOD (vv.1-3) The brevity of Bildad's reply is evidence that he had no answer to Job's predicament. He confines himself rather to fundamental facts that were important...
The forces that are at God's disposal are limitless (angelic armies?), and His light, either the sun and or His omniscience illuminates everything on the earth, thus He sees all....
OF HIS ARMIES; of the angels, and stars, and other creatures, all which are his hosts, wholly submitting themselves to his will, to be and do what God would have them; and therefore how insolent and u...
Job 25:3 there H3426 number H4557 armies H1416 light H216 rise H6965 (H8799) there - Psal
CONTENTS: Bildad's third discourse on Job's case. CHARACTERS: God, Bildad, Job. CONCLUSION: Man cannot, in himself, be justified before God for he has no merit of his own to extenuate his guilt. KE...
Job 25:4. _How can man be justified with God?_ Bildad asks a question which he himself could not answer; but we have the proper answer from the living oracle, Job 42:8. “Take seven bullocks, and offer...
_Dominion and fear are with Him._ IDEAS OF GOD AND MAN I. Most exalted ideas of god. He speaks of Him-- 1. As the head of all authority. “Dominion and fear are with Him.” 2. As the maintainer of a...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 25:1 Bildad’s words represent the final speech of the three friends. The friends have argued that their theological understanding and application represent God’s perspective. They have...
_THIRD SPEECH OF BILDAD THE SHUHITE_ His speech either a very abortive one, or it includes, as some think, the following chapter from the fifth verse to the end, the first four verses of that chapter...
EXPOSITION JOB 25:1 Far from accepting Job's challenge, and grappling with the difficulty involved in the frequent, if not universal, prosperity of the wicked. Bildad, in his weak reply, entirely avo...
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said [concerning God], Dominion and fear are with him, he makes peace in his high places. Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light aris...
Daniel 7:10; Genesis 1:14; Genesis 1:3; Isaiah 40:26; James 1:17;...
Armies — Of the angels, and stars, and other creatures, all which are his hosts. Light — The light of the sun is communicated to all parts of the world. This is a faint resemblance, of the cognisance...