Job 26:6-14

6 nudus est inferus coram illo et nullum est operimentum perditioni

7 qui extendit aquilonem super vacuum et adpendit terram super nihili

8 qui ligat aquas in nubibus suis ut non erumpant pariter deorsum

9 qui tenet vultum solii sui et expandit super illud nebulam suam

10 terminum circumdedit aquis usque dum finiantur lux et tenebrae

11 columnae caeli contremescunt et pavent ad nutum eius

12 in fortitudine illius repente maria congregata sunt et prudentia eius percussit superbum

13 spiritus eius ornavit caelos et obsetricante manu eius eductus est coluber tortuosus

14 ecce haec ex parte dicta sunt viarum eius et cum vix parvam stillam sermonis eius audierimus quis poterit tonitruum magnitudinis illius intueri

Job 26:6-14 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.