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This Chapter, containing Job's reply, is but short. The man of Uz seems to intimate, that though Bildad had advanced the truth, yet it was nothing to refute what he had before said. Job beautifully dwells upon the infinite and unsearchable power of God.
CHAPTER XXVI _Job, perceiving that his friends could no longer support their_ _arguments on the ground they had assumed, sharply reproves_ _them for their want both of wisdom and feeling_, 1-4; _s...
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...
BEGINNING OF JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD. He speaks sarcastically of the helpfulness and instructiveness of Bildad's speech. He must have been inspired (Job 26:4)!...
ANSWERED. replied [to Bildad]. See note on Job 4:1....
_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 frien...
D. GREATNESS AND GOODNESS OF GOD (Job 26:1-14) 1. What a giant of comfort Bildad has been! (sarcasm) (Job 26:1-4) TEXT 26:1-4 26 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 How hast thou helped him that is with...
_BUT JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
Bildad’s interruption did not impress Job. Such words would not help Job, who was still suffering. And Job thought that Bildad’s description of God was very poor. Job had studied wisdom (chapter 28)....
XXVI. (1) THEN ANSWERED JOB. — Job himself has virtually said much the same as Bildad (Job 9:2; Job 14:4), so he makes no further comment on his remarks here, but merely asks how he has helped him th...
וַ יַּ֥עַן אִיֹּ֗וב וַ יֹּאמַֽר׃...
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...
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...
BUT JOB ANSWERED,.... In a very sharp and biting manner; one would wonder that a man in such circumstances should have so much keenness of spirit, and deal in so much irony, and be master of so much s...
But Job answered and said, Ver. 1. _But Job answered and said_] Bildad had vexed him with his impertinence and superfluous discourses of God's attributes, as if Job had denied them or doubted of them...
_But Job answered and said_ Job, finding his friends quite driven from their strong hold, and reduced to give up the argument, now begins to triumph, Job 26:2. He tells them, if the business was to ce...
A SHARP IRONICAL REPROOF...
But Job answered and said,...
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...
“In contrast with the shortest speech in the book (chapter 25) Chapter s 26-31 comprise the longest. Job replied first to Bildad ('you' in Job 26:2 is singular), but later (in Chapter s 27-31) to all...
1-4 Job derided Bildad's answer; his words were a mixture of peevishness and self-preference. Bildad ought to have laid before Job the consolations, rather than the terrors of the Almighty. Christ kn...
JOB CHAPTER 26 Job's reply: this toucheth not Job, JOB 26:1; who acknowledgeth God power and providence to be infinite and unsearchable, of which we have but small knowledge JOB 26:5. No text from Poo...
Job 26:1 Job H347 answered H6030 (H8799) said H559 (H8799)...
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’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...
Job 26:1...