Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the (g) north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.
(g) He causes the whole earth to turn about the North pole.
He stretcheth out the (g) north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.
(g) He causes the whole earth to turn about the North pole.
Verse Job 26:7. _HE STRETCHETH OUT THE NORTH OVER THE EMPTY PLACE_] על תהו _al tohu, to the hollow waste_. The same word as is used, Genesis 1:2, _The earth was without form_, תהו tohu. The north mus...
HE STRETCHETH OUT THE NORTH - This whole passage is particularly interesting as giving a view of the cosmology which prevailed in those early times. Indeed, as has been already remarked, this poem, ap...
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 ...
NORTH. See note on Psalms 75:6; Isaiah 14:13; Isaiah 14:14. UPON NOTHING. not on any thing....
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...
God's power and greatness in heaven and earth....
It may be doubtful whether "the north" refers to the northern part of the earth or to the northern heavens. In favour of the latter reference is the fact that the expression "stretch out," often said...
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,...
THE EMPTY PLACE] RV 'empty space.' The writer seems to speak here of God stretching the vault of the northern heavens with their bright constellations above the atmosphere, and of the earth hanging un...
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....
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...
Many ancient people thought that the earth was on poles. Even Job mentions these poles elsewhere. But Job’s words here are correct. Scientists have proved that an empty space surrounds the world. God...
HE STRETCHETH OUT THE NORTH OVER THE EMPTY PLACE, AND HANGETH THE EARTH UPON NOTHING. — If these words mean what they seem to do — and it is hard to see how they can mean anything else — then they fur...
נֹטֶ֣ה צָפֹ֣ון עַל ־תֹּ֑הוּ תֹּ֥לֶה אֶ֝֗רֶץ ע
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...
_North pole, which alone was visible in Idumea, and continued unmoved, while all the stars performed their revolutions. (Calmet) --- Nothing. Terra, pilæ similis, nullo fulcimine nixa. (Ovid, Fast, vi...
(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...
HE STRETCHETH OUT THE NORTH OVER THE EMPTY PLACE,.... The northern hemisphere, which is the chief and best known, at least it was in the time of Job, when the southern hemisphere might not be known at...
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing. Ver. 7. _He stretcheth out the north over the empty place_] Heb. Over Tohu. Aristotle saith, that beyond the mo...
Job 26:7. "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing." By stretching out the north over the empty place in the former part of the verse, seems to be meant th...
_He stretcheth out the north_ The northern part of the heavens, which he particularly mentions, and puts for the whole visible heavens, because Job and his friends lived in a northern climate; _over t...
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, the northern half of the vault of heaven being compared to a great canopy. which the Creator spread out, AND HANGETH THE EARTH UPON NOTHING, it is sus...
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...
"HE STRETCHES OUT THE NORTH OVER EMPTY SPACE": "God's creation of the skies was likened by Job to His stretching out. tent on. pole. The 'north' is the celestial pole around which the universe appears...
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...
THE NORTH, i.e. the northern pole, or part of the heavens, which he particularly mentions, and puts for the whole visible heaven, because Job and his friends lived in a northern climate, and were acqu...
Job 26:7 out H5186 (H8802) north H6828 space H8414 hangs H8518 (H8802) earth H776 nothing H1099...
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...
_And hangeth the earth upon nothing._ THE BASIS OF THE GREAT REALITIES That is the startling and sublime conception of the sacred poet, that the earth is sustained by impalpable and spiritual energie...
_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 26:5 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 ...
_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 1:1; Genesis 1:2; Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 40:26; Isaiah 42:5;...
North — The northern part of the heavens, which is put for the whole visible heaven, because Job and his friends lived in a northern climate. Nothing — Upon no props or pillars, but his own power and...