Job 26:2-12

2 "You have helped the person who has no power and saved the arm that isn't strong.

3 You have advised the person who has no wisdom and offered so much assistance.

4 To whom have you spoken [these] words, and whose spirit has spoken through you?

5 "The souls of the dead tremble beneath the water, and so do the creatures living there.

6 Sheol is naked in God's presence, and Abaddon has no clothing.

7 "He stretches out his heavens over empty space. He hangs the earth on nothing whatsoever.

8 He holds the water in his thick clouds, and the clouds don't [even] split under its [weight].

9 He covers his throne by spreading his cloud over it.

10 He marks the horizon on the surface of the water at the boundary where light meets dark.

11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished when he yells at them.

12 With his power he calmed the sea. With his insight he killed Rahab [the sea monster].

Job 26:2-12 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.