“ The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. ”
The pillars of Heaven tremble - That is, the mountains, which seem to bear up the heavens. So, among the ancients. Mount Atlas was represented as one of the pillars of heaven. Virgil speaks of “A...
The (k) pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. (k) Not that heaven has pillars to uphold it, but he speaks by a similitude as though he would say heaven itself is not able to a...
Conclusion of Bildad's Speech. Bildad pursues the theme of the greatness of God, begun in Job 25:2-3 . The giants ( Deuteronomy 2:11-20 ) tremble at God ( Job 26:5 ). Rephaim ( Genesis 14:5 *) m...
tremble... astonished. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia . App-6.
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. The pillars of heaven tremble - This is probably a poetical description either of thunder, or of an earthquake: - "He shakes creatio...
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. As before, in Job 9:1-35 ; Job 12:1-25 , Job had shown himself not inferior to the friends in ability to describe Go...
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.
The pillars of heaven tremble. — The phenomenon of storm and tempest is alluded to.
XXII. THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS Job 26:1-14 ; Job 27:1-23 Job SPEAKS BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm. "How hast thou helped one without power! How hast thou saved the...
“The Outskirts of His Ways” Job 26:1-14 Job taunts Bildad with his reply as having imparted no help or thought. He then proceeds, Job 26:5-14 , to give a description of God's power as manifest...
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 exclamation...
(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 pillars of heaven tremble ,.... Which may be understood either of the air, the lower part of the heavens, which may be thought to be the foundation, prop, and support of them, and is sometimes c...
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. Ver. 11. The pillars of heaven tremble ] i.e. The angels, say some, who tremble out of conscience of their own comparative imperf...
The pillars of heaven tremble Perhaps the mountains, which by their height and strength seem to reach and support the heavens. And are astonished at his reproof When God reproveth not them, but m...
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 len...
The Wisdom and Power of God. B. C. 1520. 5 Dead things are formed from under the wat...
The pillars of heaven; either, 1. Those mountains which by their height and strength may seem to reach and support the heavens, as the poets said of Atlas; for this is a poetical book, and there...
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...
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...
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 w...
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...
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 w...
1 Samuel 2:8 ; 2 Peter 3:10 ; Haggai 2:21 ; Hebrews 12:26 ; Hebrews 12:27 ; Job 15:15 ; Psalms 18:7 ; Revelation 20:11
Pillars — Perhaps the mountains which by their height and strength seem to reach and support the heavens. Astonished — When God reproveth not them, but men by them, manifesting his displeasure by t...