Job 26:5-14

Truth about God

5 The dead writhe, the inhabitants beneath the waters as well.
6 The grave is naked before God; the underworld lacks covering.
7 He stretched the North over chaos, hung earth over nothing;
8 wrapped up water in his clouds, yet they didn't burst out below;
9 hid the face of the full moon, spreading his cloud over it;
10 traced a circle on the water's surface, at the limit of light and darkness.
11 Heaven's pillars shook, terrified by his blast.
12 By his power he stilled the Sea; split Rahab with his cleverness.
13 Due to his wind, heaven became clear; his hand split the fleeing serpent.
14 Look, these are only the outer fringe of his ways; we hear only a whispered word about him. Who can understand his thunderous power?

Job 26:5-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 26

In this chapter Job, in a very sarcastic manner, rallies Bildad on the weakness and impertinence of his reply, and sets it in a very ridiculous light; showing it to be quite foolish and stupid, and not at all to the purpose, and besides was none of his own, but what he had borrowed from another, Job 26:1-4; and if it was of any avail in the controversy to speak of the greatness and majesty of God, of his perfections and attributes, of his ways and works, he could say greater and more glorious things of God than he had done, and as he does, Job 26:5-13; beginning at the lower parts of the creation, and gradually ascending to the superior and celestial ones; and concludes with observing, that, after all, it was but little that was known of God and his ways, by himself, by Bildad, or by any mortal creature, Job 26:14.

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