Job 26 | TSK | STEP | Job, reproving the uncharitable spirit of Bildad, acknowledges the power of God to be infinite and unsearchable.

‏ Job 26

1 Job, reproving the uncharitable spirit of Bildad,

5 acknowledges the power of God to be infinite and unsearchable.

How has thou.Bildad had produced no argument to refute Job's doctrine; and therefore Job ironically admires the assistance which Bildad had given to his friends in their extremity, and the instruction he had afforded him in his perplexity.

12:2; 1Ki 18:27

helped.

4:3,4; 6:25; 16:4,5; Isa 35:3,4; 40:14; 41:5-7

counselled.

6:13; 12:3; 13:5; 15:8-10; 17:10; 32:11-13

plentifully.

33:3,33; 38:2; Ps 49:1-4; 71:15-18; Pr 8:6-9; Ac 20:20,27

whose spirit.

20:3; 32:18; 1Ki 22:23,24; Ec 12:7; 1Co 12:3; 1Jo 4:1-3

Re 16:13,14

Dead things.Or, "The giants {rephaïm} are in anguish under the waters and their inhabitants;" probably in allusion to the destruction of the earth by the deluge.

41:1-34; Ge 6:4; Ps 104:25,26; Eze 29:3-5

and. or, with.

Hell.

11:8; Ps 139:8,11; Pr 15:11; Isa 14:9; Am 9:2; Heb 4:13

destruction.

28:22; Ps 88:10

9:8; Ge 1:1,2; Ps 24:2; 104:2-5; Pr 8:23-27; Isa 40:22,26; 42:5

bindeth up.

36:29; 38:9,37; Ge 1:6,7; Ps 135:7; Pr 30:4; Jer 10:13

thick clouds.

37:11-16; Ps 18:10,11

and the cloud.