Job 26:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? ”

• Job 26:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Lo, these are parts of his ways - This is a small portion of his works. We see only the outlines, the surface of his mighty doings. This is still true. With all the advances which have been made...

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• Job 26:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Lo, these [are] parts of his ways: but (m) how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? (m) If these few things which we see daily with our eyes, declare hi...

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• Job 26:14 - 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 26:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  but how little. portion . 'tis but. whisper.

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• Job 26:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? Lo, these are parts of his ways - קצות ketsoth, the ends or extremities,...

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• Job 26:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Lo, these are parts of his ways— Lo! these are but the outlines of his paths; yet what a series of noble acts have we heard of him! but of the thundering of his mightiness, who can even bear the c...

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• Job 26:14 - 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 26:14 - 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 26:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  These are parts. — Literally, ends — just the merest outskirts. For “is heard” we may render do we hear; and for “the thunder of His power,” the thunder of His mighty deeds. We can only hear...

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• Job 26:14 - 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 26:14 - 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 26:14 - 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 26:14 - 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 26:14 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE MAJESTY OF GOD ‘The thunder of His power who can understand?’ Job 26:14 We come here to Job’s answer. I. This as to Bildad occupies but one chapter, which is characterised from beginn...

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• Job 26:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Lo, these [are] parts of his ways ,.... This is the conclusion of the discourse concerning the wonderful works of God; and Job was so far from thinking that he had taken notice of all, or even of th...

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• Job 26:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Lo, these [are] parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? Ver. 14. Lo, these are parts of his ways ] Or rather, particles of his...

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• Job 26:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Lo, these are parts of his ways But very small parcels even of those of his works which are visible to us. For it would be a vain and fruitless labour should I undertake to speak of all the wonders...

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• Job 26:14 - 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 26:14 - 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 26:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  These are parts, or, the extremities , but small parcels, the outside and visible work. How glorious then are his visible and more inward perfections and operations! Of his ways, i.e. of his wor...

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• Job 26:14 - 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 26:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Job 26:14 The mutual relations of physical science and religious faith. If it were possible for a solitary man to become the absolute master of all the provinces of physical science, he would be...

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• Job 26:14 - 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 26:14 - 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 26:14 - 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 26:14 - 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 26:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 13:9-12 ; 1 Samuel 2:10 ; Isaiah 40:26-29 ; Job 11:7-9 ; Job 40:9 ; Psalms 139:6 ; Psalms 145:3 ; Psalms 29:3 ; Romans 11:33

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• Job 26:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Parts — But small parcels, the outside and visible work. Portion — Of his power and wisdom, and providence. His Power — His mighty power, is aptly compared to thunder; in regard of its irresistible...

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