Job 26:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. ”

• Job 26:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  By his spirit - The word spirit here is either synonymous with wisdom, referring to the wisdom by which God made the heavens; or with breath - meaning, that he did it by his own command. There is...

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• Job 26:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked (l) serpent. (l) Which is a figure of stars shaped like a serpent, because of the crookedness.

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• Job 26:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 26:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9. garnished . beautified. hath formed . doth stay. See note on Job 26:5 . crooked . fleeing. Heb barih . The word occurs only here; Isaiah 27:1 ; Isaiah 43:1...

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• Job 26:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. By his Spirit he hath garnished the heavens - See the observations below.

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• Job 26:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens, &c.— It may be well asked, how come these disagreeable ideas to be joined together? How comes the forming of a crooked serpent to be mentioned as...

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• Job 26:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 26:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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.

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• Job 26:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The crooked serpent. — By this expression is doubtless meant the forked lightning-flash, though it is difficult to determine whether any, or what mythological ideas may underlie the expression, or...

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• Job 26:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Job 26:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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...

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• Job 26:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 26:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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,...

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• Job 26:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens ,.... The visible heavens, with the sun, moon, and stars, with which they are studded and bespangled, and look exceeding beautiful; and the invisible heav...

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• Job 26:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. Ver. 13. By his Spirit he hath garnished the heavens ] Spiritu eius caeli sunt ipsa pulchritudo, By his Spi...

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• Job 26:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  By his Spirit Either, 1st, By his divine virtue or power, called his Spirit, Zechariah 4:6 ; Matthew 12:28 . Or, 2d, By his Holy Spirit , to which the creation of the world is ascribed, Genesis...

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• Job 26:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 26:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Wisdom and Power of God. B. C. 1520.       5 Dead things are formed from under the wat...

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• Job 26:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  By his spirit; either, 1. By his Divine virtue or power, which is sometimes called his spirit , as Malachi 4:6 Matthew 12:28 . Or, 2. By his Holy Spirit, to which the creation of the worl...

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• Job 26:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Job 26:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 26:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Job 26:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Job 26:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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...

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• Job 26:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Genesis 1:2 ; Isaiah 27:1 ; Psalms 104:30 ; Psalms 33:6 ; Psalms 33:7 ; Psalms 74:13 ; Psalms 74:14 ; Revelation 12:9

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