Job Chapter 26



Job answers (Job 26), and certainly with quite sufficient keenness, "How hast thou helped him that is without power? How savest thou the arm that hath no strength? "He was like the poor publican, the tax-gatherer. "How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? And how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? To whom hast thou uttered words?" He was talking in the air. "And whose spirit came from thee?" Now he showed that he entered into God's dominion far more fully and extensively than Bildad had admitted. "Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing" - a very remarkable anticipation of modern discovery. "He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them" - i.e., whether it be the little rain or the great rain, all is under God's control. "He holdeth back the face of his throne," etc., etc. (vers. 8-13). "Lo these are parts of his ways" - they are only the fringes of his ways, which would give the idea - "but how little a portion is heard of him?" It is only the whisper that we hear now - "but the thunder of his power" - ah I that is reserved for the day of judgment - "who can understand?"