Job 26:6-14

6 El sepulcro es descubierto delante de él, Y el infierno no tiene cobertura.

7 Extiende el alquilón sobre vacío, Cuelga la tierra sobre nada.

8 Ata las aguas en sus nubes, Y las nubes no se rompen debajo de ellas.

9 El restriñe la faz de su trono, Y sobre él extiende su nube.

10 El cercó con término la superficie de las aguas, Hasta el fin de la luz y las tinieblas.

11 Las columnas del cielo tiemblan, Y se espantan de su reprensión.

12 El rompe la mar con su poder, Y con su entendimiento hiere la hinchazón suya.

13 Su espíritu adornó los cielos; Su mano crió la serpiente tortuosa.

14 He aquí, estas son partes de sus caminos: ¡Mas cuán poco hemos oído de él! Porque el estruendo de sus fortalezas, ¿quién lo detendrá?

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.