XXV. (1) THEN ANSWERED BILDAD. — Bildad attempts no formal reply to Job’s statements, he merely falls back upon the position twice assumed by Eliphaz before (Job 4:17; Job 15:14), and twice allowed also by Job (Job 14:4) — the impossibility of man being just with God — and therefore implies the impi... [ Continue Reading ]
DOMINION AND FEAR ARE WITH HIM. — He is absolute in sovereignty and terrible in power, so that even in His high places, and among His celestial hosts, He maintaineth peace and harmony.... [ Continue Reading ]
IS THERE ANY NUMBER OF HIS ARMIES? — He is also so glorious that He dispenses of His glory to His innumerable hosts of angels. Glorious as they are, they but reflect His glory; and what then must not that be? but if so, how utterly hopeless for man to think he can have any purity to compete with His... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN TO THE MOON AND STARS, pure and chaste as their light is, they are not clean before Him (comp. Job 4:18), for the stars rise and set, and once in every month the moon hides her face.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW MUCH LESS MAN... — Comp. Psalms 8:4; Psalms 22:6; Isaiah 41:14, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]