Job 26:1-7

1 Job answered and said,

2 How hast thou helped the one who has no power? Hast thou saved with thy arm the one who has no strength?

3 How hast thou counselled the one that has no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

4 To whom hast thou uttered words, and whose is the spirit that comes forth from thee?

5 Dead things are formed under the waters and of its dwelling places.

6 Sheol is naked before him, and hell has no covering.

7 He stretches out the north wind over the empty place and hangs the earth upon nothing.

Job 26:1-7 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.