The crooked serpent. — By this expression is doubtless meant the forked lightning-flash, though it is difficult to determine whether any, or what mythological ideas may underlie the expression, or whether it is anything more than a figure derived from the natural world, which suggested the similitude of the flying serpent. Others understand by it the constellation of the Northern Dragon, to whose influence storms were ascribed.
Verse Job 26:13. _BY HIS SPIRIT HE HATH GARNISHED THE HEAVENS_] See the observations below....
BY HIS SPIRIT - The word spirit here is either synonymous with wisdom, referring to the wisdom by which God made the heavens; or with breath - meaning, that he did it by his own command. There is no e...
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...
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 ...
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. GARNISHED. beautified. HATH FORMED. doth stay. See note on Job 26:5. CROOKED. fleeing. Heb _barih_. The word occurs only here; Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 43:14, referring
God's power and greatness in heaven and earth....
These verses probably read, 12. He quelleth the sea with his power, And by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab. 13. By his breath the heavens are bright, His hand pierceth the fleeing serpe...
_by his spirit he hath garnished_ Rather as above. The reference is to the clearing away of storm clouds, that darken the heavens, by the breath of God. _hath formed_ Rather as above, PIERCETH. The wo...
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...
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 inst...
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...
_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,...
26:13 formed (i-11) Or 'pierced.'...
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....
Render, 'By His breath the heavens are bright (through the scattering of the storm clouds), and His hand pierceth the flying serpent,' or dragon, which was supposed to cause darkness or eclipse by swa...
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...
Verses 11-13 seem to describe a particular event. The original language of the Book of Job is called Hebrew. To understand these verses we need to look at the Hebrew words. • The proud enemy in vers...
בְּ֭ רוּחֹו שָׁמַ֣יִם שִׁפְרָ֑ה חֹֽלֲלָ֥ה יָ֝דֹ֗ו...
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...
“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...
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...
By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked (l) serpent. (l) Which is a figure of stars shaped like a serpent, because of the crookedness....
Heavens, with stars, &c., Psalm xxxii. 6., and Wisdom i. 7. God also sends winds to disperse the clouds, that the heavens may appear. (Calmet) --- Artful, ( obstetricante) "being the midwife." The lea...
(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,...
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...
BY HIS SPIRIT HE HATH GARNISHED THE HEAVENS,.... The visible heavens, with the sun, moon, and stars, with which they are studded and bespangled, and look exceeding beautiful; and the invisible heavens...
By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. Ver. 13. _By his Spirit he hath garnished the heavens_] _Spiritu eius caeli sunt ipsa pulchritudo,_ By his Spiri...
Job 26:13. "His hands have formed the crooked serpent." It might have been translated, "His hands have wounded or tormented the crooked serpent" - _i.e., _ the devil. The word translated "formed" is t...
_By his Spirit_ Either, 1st, By his divine virtue or power, called his Spirit, Zechariah 4:6; Matthew 12:28. Or, 2d, By his _Holy Spirit_, to which the creation of the world is ascribed, Genesis 1:2;...
By His spirit He hath garnished the heavens, His breath scatters the clouds and brightens the face of the sky; HIS HAND HATH FORMED THE CROOKED SERPENT, pierces or strangles the constellation of the D...
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...
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...
God's mere breath completely clears the sky after. storm. The "fleeing serpent" may be. parallel to "Rahab" in Job 26:12. __...
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...
BY HIS SPIRIT; either, 1. By his Divine virtue or power, which is sometimes called _his spirit_, as MALACHI 4:6 MATTHEW 12:28. Or, 2. By his Holy Spirit, to which the creation of the world is ascribe...
Job 26:13 Spirit H7307 adorned H8235 (H8765) heavens H8064 hand H3027 pierced H2342 (H8790) fleeing H1281 serpent...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 26:11 The world reveals God’s POWER and UNDERSTANDING as the one who created and governs everything. How, then, can anyone who merely hears the THUNDER OF HIS POWER clai
_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...
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...
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...
Genesis 1:2; Isaiah 27:1; Psalms 104:30; Psalms 33:6; Psalms 33:7;...