Job 26:6-14

6 Le Sépulcre est à nu devant lui, et l'abîme est sans voile.

7 Il étend le septentrion sur le vide, il suspend la terre sur le néant.

8 Il renferme les eaux dans ses nuages, et la nuée n'éclate pas sous leur poids.

9 Il couvre la face de son trône, il déploie au-dessus sa nuée.

10 Il décrit un cercle sur les eaux, au point où la lumière confine avec les ténèbres.

11 Les colonnes des cieux sont ébranlées, et s'étonnent à sa menace.

12 Par sa force, il soulève la mer; et par son habileté, il écrase les plus puissants rebelles.

13 Son souffle rend le ciel pur; sa main perce le dragon fugitif.

14 Ce ne sont là que les bords de ses voies; qu'il est faible le bruit qu'en saisit notre oreille! Et qui pourra entendre le tonnerre de sa puissance?

Job 26:6-14 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.