Job 26:1-9

1 Then Job answered:

2 "You are no help to the helpless! You have not aided the weak!

3 Your advice lacks wisdom! You have shown little understanding!

4 Who has helped you say these words? And where did you get these ideas?

5 "The spirits of the dead tremble, those who are beneath and in the waters.

6 Death is naked before God; destruction is uncovered before him.

7 God stretches the northern sky out over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing.

8 He wraps up the waters in his thick clouds, but the clouds do not break under their weight.

9 He covers the face of the moon, spreading his clouds over it.

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.