“ Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise? ”
Is there any number of his armies? - The armies of heaven; or the hosts of angelic beings, which are often represented as arranged or marshalled into armies; see the notes at Isaiah 1:9 . The wo...
Is there any number of his armies? (b) and upon whom doth not his light arise? (b) Who can hide him from his presence?
Job 25-27. offer a difficult critical problem. The phenomena which excite attention are these: ( a ) Bildad's speech is unusually short; ( b ) Job's reply contains a section ( Job 26:5-14 ) very li...
Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise? Is there any number of his armies? - He has troops innumerable; he can serve himself of all his creatures; every thing may b...
And upon whom doth not his light arise?— And who is there whom his brightness doth not surpass? Heath and Schultens.
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, He tries to show Job's rashness ( Job 23:3 ), by arguments borrowed from Eliphaz ( Job 15:15 ), with which cf. Job 11:17 . Verse 2. Power and terro...
Bildad's Last Speech He ignores Job's questionings respecting the justice of God's rule, but declares His perfection and majesty, and the imperfection of all created things, repeating the theme of...
Is there any number of his armies? — He is also so glorious that He dispenses of His glory to His innumerable hosts of angels. Glorious as they are, they but reflect His glory; and what then must n...
XXI. THE DOMINION AND THE BRIGHTNESS Job 25:1-6 BILDAD SPEAKS THE argument of the last chapter proceeded entirely on the general aspect of the question whether the evil are punished in propor...
How Can Man Be Just before God? Job 25:1-6 Bildad's closing speech adds little to the controversy. He suggests simply that Job's vindications of himself do not imply that he is righteous before...
The answer of Bildad is characterized by its brevity, and by the fact that he did not set himself to argue the matter with Job. It is a manifest weakening in the controversy on the side of the friend...
(1) В¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, (2) Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places. (3) Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light aris...
Is there any number of his armies ?.... His armies in heaven, the heavenly host of angels, which are innumerable; there are more than twelve legions of them, thousand and ten thousand times ten thou...
Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise? Ver. 3. Is there any number of his armies? ] God is Lord of hosts; and, as the Rabbis well observe, he hath his upper for...
Is there any number of his armies? Of his angels, and stars, and other creatures, all which are his hosts, wholly submitting themselves to his will, to be and to do whatever he pleases. And, theref...
BILDAD'S REPLY THE GREATNESS OF GOD (vv.1-3) The brevity of Bildad's reply is evidence that he had no answer to Job's predicament. He confines himself rather to fundamental facts that were impor...
God Exalted and Man Abased. B. C. 1520. 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, ...
Of his armies; of the angels, and stars, and other creatures, all which are his hosts, wholly submitting themselves to his will, to be and do what God would have them; and therefore how insolent an...
THIRD SPEECH OF BILDAD THE SHUHITE His speech either a very abortive one, or it includes, as some think, the following chapter from the fifth verse to the end, the first four verses of that chap...
Job 25:4 . How can man be justified with God? Bildad asks a question which he himself could not answer; but we have the proper answer from the living oracle, Job 42:8 . “Take seven bullocks, and...
Dominion and fear are with Him. Ideas of God and man I. Most exalted ideas of god. He speaks of Him-- 1. As the head of all authority. “Dominion and fear are with Him.” 2. As the maintain...
EXPOSITION Job 25:1-18 Far from accepting Job's challenge, and grappling with the difficulty involved in the frequent, if not universal, prosperity of the wicked. Bildad, in his weak reply,...
Bildad Rebukes Job Again. Since Job had asserted his innocence in such emphatic terms, Bildad believed it incumbent upon him to reprove him, chiefly in two propositions, namely, that man cannot ar...
Daniel 7:10 ; Genesis 1:14-16 ; Genesis 1:3-5 ; Isaiah 40:26 ; James 1:17 ; Job 38:12 ; Job 38:13 ; John 1:4 ; John 1:9 ; Matthew 26:53 ; Matthew 5:45 ; Psalms 103:20 ; Psalms 103:21 ;...
Armies — Of the angels, and stars, and other creatures, all which are his hosts. Light — The light of the sun is communicated to all parts of the world. This is a faint resemblance, of the cognisan...