Job 26:1-7

1 Noveno discurso de Job: respuesta a Bildad
Entonces Job habló de nuevo:

2 «¡Qué manera de ayudar a los indefensos!
¡Cómo salvas a los débiles!

3 ¡Cómo has iluminado mi estupidez!
¡Qué consejo tan sabio has ofrecido!

4 ¿De dónde sacaste esas frases tan sabias?
¿El espíritu de quién habla por medio de ti?

5 »Tiemblan los muertos:
los que habitan debajo de las aguas.

6 El averno
está desnudo en presencia de Dios;
el lugar de destrucción
está al descubierto.

7 Dios extiende el cielo del norte sobre el espacio vacío
y cuelga a la tierra sobre la nada.

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.