Job 26:9-14

9 Il couvre la face de son trône, Il répand sur lui sa nuée.

10 Il a tracé un cercle à la surface des eaux, Comme limite entre la lumière et les ténèbres.

11 Les colonnes du ciel s'ébranlent, Et s'étonnent à sa menace.

12 Par sa force il soulève la mer, Par son intelligence il en brise l'orgueil.

13 Son souffle donne au ciel la sérénité, Sa main transperce le serpent fuyard.

14 Ce sont là les bords de ses voies, C'est le bruit léger qui nous en parvient; Mais qui entendra le tonnerre de sa puissance?

Job 26:9-14 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.