_JOB, REPROVING THE UNCHARITABLE SPIRIT OF BILDAD, ACKNOWLEDGES THE POWER OF GOD TO BE INFINITE AND UNSEARCHABLE._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 26:1. BUT JOB ANSWERED AND SAID_— Job, finding his friends quite driven from their strong hold, and reduced to give up the argument, now tells them, Job 26... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW HAST THOU HELPED HIM, &C.— _Whom hast thou been helping? him who hast no power: For whom hast thou gotten a victory? the arm which hath no strength,_ Job 26:3. _To whom hast thou been giving counsel? him who hath no wisdom: verily, thou hast been teaching learning to the master._ Heath. The latt... [ Continue Reading ]
DEAD THINGS ARE FORMED FROM UNDER THE WATERS— _Shall the Rephaim be brought forth from under the waters; and their inhabitants,_ or _their neighbours?_ It follows, Job 26:6, _Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering._ Job is here giving instances of the almighty power of God. Our... [ Continue Reading ]
HE HOLDETH BACK THE FACE OF HIS THRONE, &C.— _He covereth the place of his immediate presence, spreading his cloud over it._ Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE HATH COMPASSED THE WATERS WITH BOUNDS— _He hath set a circle as a boundary upon the face of the waters, even to the extremity of light with darkness; i.e._ to the very edge where light and darkness meet. The horizontal circle is here meant. See Peters, and the note on chap. Job 28:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE DIVIDETH THE SEA WITH HIS POWER— _He shaketh the sea._ Schultens. _He appeaseth the sea by his power; by his wisdom he hath determined its extent._ Houbigant, who observes, that the sacred author here refers to God's creation of the sea, and his limitation of it by appointed bounds. Bishop Warbur... [ Continue Reading ]
BY HIS SPIRIT HE HATH GARNISHED THE HEAVENS, &C.— It may be well asked, how come these disagreeable ideas to be joined together? How comes the _forming of a crooked serpent_ to be mentioned as an instance of Almighty power, and to be set as it were upon an equal foot with the creation of the heavens... [ Continue Reading ]
LO, THESE ARE PARTS OF HIS WAYS— _Lo! these are but the outlines of his paths; yet what a series of noble acts have we heard of him! but of the thundering of his mightiness, who can even bear the contemplation?_ See Heath and Schultens. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Pained as Job is, in every part, he cannot h... [ Continue Reading ]