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Verse Job 26:8. _HE BINDETH UP THE WATERS_] Drives the aqueous
particles together, which were raised by evaporation, so that, being
condensed, they form clouds which float in the atmosphere, till,
me...
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HE BINDETH UP THE WATERS IN HIS THICK CLOUDS - That is, he seems to do
it, or to collect the waters in the clouds, as in bottles or vessels.
The clouds appear to hold the waters, as if bound up, until...
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CHAPTER 26JOB'S REPLY
_ 1. A sarcastic beginning (Job 26:1)_
2. Job also knows and can speak of the greatness of God (Job 26:5)
Job 26:1. You have helped me greatly, Bildad, me, who am without
power...
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CONCLUSION OF BILDAD'S SPEECH. Bildad pursues the theme of the
greatness of God, begun in Job 25:2.
The giants (Deuteronomy 2:11) tremble at God (Job 26:5). Rephaim ...
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That Job has no need to be instructed regarding the greatness of God
he now shews, by entering upon an exhibition of its operations in
every sphere of that which exists, Hades, the Earth and Heaven, i...
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The wonder of the clouds, floating reservoirs of water, which do not
burst under the weight of waters which they contain. Men bind up water
in skins or bottles, God binds up the rain floods in the thi...
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God's power and greatness in heaven and earth....
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2. No mysteries are hidden from God. (Job 26:5-14)
(Some would attribute this section to Bildad.)
a. There is no close connection between it and the preceding verses.
TEXT 26:5-14
5 THEY THAT ARE DE...
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_DEAD THINGS ARE FORMED FROM UNDER THE WATERS, AND THE INHABITANTS
THEREOF._ As before, in Job 9:1; Job 12:1, Job had shown himself not
inferior to the friends in ability to describe God's greatness,...
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The retention of rain in the clouds as in a skin or bag: cp. Job
38:37....
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JOB'S EIGHTH SPEECH (JOB 26, 27)
1-4. Job taunts Bildad with the worthlessness of his remarks as a
solution of the problem.
2, 3, 4 are spoken ironically....
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 26
JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S...
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God’s design of this world is wonderful. We need the rain for our
crops. Nothing holds the rain in the sky. But the water in the clouds
is often very heavy....
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HE BINDETH UP THE WATERS. — The idea of the waters being bound up in
the clouds, so that the clouds are not rent thereby, is similar to
that in Genesis 1:7. The conception is that of a vast treasury o...
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צֹרֵֽר ־מַ֥יִם בְּ עָבָ֑יו וְ לֹא
־נִבְקַ֖ע
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XXII.
THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS
Job 26:1; Job 27:1
Job SPEAKS
BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm.
"How hast thou helped one without power!
How hast thou saved the strengthless...
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“THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS”
Job 26:1
Job taunts Bildad with his reply as having imparted no help or
thought. He then proceeds, Job 26:5, to give a description of God's
power as manifested in Hades, i...
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We come next to Job's answer. The reply to Bildad occupies but one
chapter, which is characterized from beginning to end by scorn for the
man who had no more to say. In a series of fierce exclamations...
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_Clouds, as in a vessel or garment, Proverbs xxx. 4._...
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(5) В¶ Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the
inhabitants thereof. (6) Hell is naked before him, and destruction
hath no covering. (7) He stretcheth out the north over the empty
place,...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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HE BINDETH UP THE WATERS IN HIS THICK CLOUDS,.... The clouds are of
his making; when he utters his voice, or gives the word of command,
there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and the vapours h...
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He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not
rent under them.
Ver. 8. _He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds_] Heb. Clouds,
which yet have their name from thickness, beca...
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He bindeth up the waters in His thick clouds, shutting them in,
bolding them suspended as in immense containers; AND THE CLOUD IS NOT
RENT UNDER THEM, it does not burst under the enormous pressure of...
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A Description Of God's Surpassing Glory.
Job now, in order to refute Bildad more thoroughly, shows his
understanding of the almighty power of God both in the creation and in
the government of the wor...
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BILDAD'S WORDS FUTILE IN JOB'S CASE
(vv.1-4)
Job begins a reply that continues through six Chapter s, and his
friends are totally silenced. His language is amazing, specially
considering the length...
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Job is amazed at how the clouds can be full of water like waterskins,
and yet remain suspended in air without releasing their water. __...
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5-14 Many striking instances are here given of the wisdom and power
of God, in the creation and preservation of the world. If we look
about us, to the earth and waters here below, we see his almighty...
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This also is a miraculous work of God, considering the nature of these
waters, which are fluid and heavy, and pressing downward, especially
being ofttimes there in great abundance; and withal, the qua...
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Job 26:8 up H6887 (H8802) water H4325 clouds H5645 clouds H6051 broken
H1234 (H8738)
bindeth up -...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad. His faith in God.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends.
CONCLUSION: God is infinite and incomprehensible; man's capacities to
understand Him and all His ways are weak, the...
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Job 26:5. _Dead things,_ הרפאים _ha-raphaim,_ the raphaim _are
formed from under the waters._ SCHULTENS reads, _Manes orcinorum
intremiscunt, de subter aquis, et la habitatores eorum._ The manes of
th...
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_He bindeth up the waters in His thick clouds._
WATER AND ITS WONDERFUL TRANSPORTATION BY CLOUDS
The average quantity of aqueous vapour, or water held in the air, is
estimated to be 54,460,000,000,00...
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_But Job answered and said._
THE TRANSCENDENT GREATNESS OF GOD
I. God appears incomprehensibly great in that portion of the universe
that is brought under human observation.
1. In connection with t...
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JOB 26:1 Job: The Power of God, Place of Wisdom, and Path of
Integrity. Up until now, the dialogue between Job and his three
friends has followed a pattern in which each speech by Job is followed
by r...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 26:5 The state or realm of the DEAD is not visible
to humanity (it is UNDER THE WATERS), but it is NAKED and HAS NO
COVERING before God ...
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_JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD_
Job, more alive to Bildad’s want of sympathy than to the excellence
of his sentiments in regard to the Divine perfections, speaks somewhat
petulantly,—certainly with irony and...
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EXPOSITION
The long discourse of Job now begins, which forms the central and most
solid mass of the book. It continues through six chapters (Job
26-31.). In it Job, after hastily brushing aside Bildad...
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So Job answers now this little saying of Bildad. It's his third and
final answer to Job, and it's really nothing.
Job answered and said, How have you helped him that is without power?
how can you save...
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Genesis 1:6; Genesis 1:7; Isaiah 5:6; Jeremiah 10:13; Job 36:29;...