Job 26:3-13

3 How have you counseled one who has no wisdom? And how have you declared sound advice to many?

4 To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came from you?

5 "The dead tremble, Those under the waters and those inhabiting them.

6 Sheol is naked before Him, And Destruction has no covering.

7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.

8 He binds up the water in His thick clouds, Yet the clouds are not broken under it.

9 He covers the face of His throne, And spreads His cloud over it.

10 He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters, At the boundary of light and darkness.

11 The pillars of heaven tremble, And are astonished at His rebuke.

12 He stirs up the sea with His power, And by His understanding He breaks up the storm.

13 By His Spirit He adorned the heavens; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Job 26:3-13 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.