Job 26:1-9

1 Job answered:

2 "Well, you've certainly been a great help to a helpless man! You came to the rescue just in the nick of time!

3 What wonderful advice you've given to a mixed-up man! What amazing insights you've provided!

4 Where in the world did you learn all this? How did you become so inspired?

5 "All the buried dead are in torment, and all who've been drowned in the deep, deep sea.

6 Hell is ripped open before God, graveyards dug up and exposed.

7 He spreads the skies over unformed space, hangs the earth out in empty space.

8 He pours water into cumulus cloud-bags and the bags don't burst.

9 He makes the moon wax and wane, putting it through its phases.

Job 26:1-9 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.