Job 26:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. ”

• Job 26:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He stretcheth out the north - This whole passage is particularly interesting as giving a view of the cosmology which prevailed in those early times. Indeed, as has been already remarked, this poe...

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• Job 26:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  He stretcheth out the (g) north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing. (g) He causes the whole earth to turn about the North pole.

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• Job 26:7 - 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 26:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  north. See note on Psalms 75:6 ; Isaiah 14:13 ; Isaiah 14:14 . upon nothing . not on any thing.

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• Job 26:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place - על תהו al tohu, to the hollow waste. The same word as is use...

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• Job 26:7 - 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 26:7 - 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 26:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. — If these words mean what they seem to do — and it is hard to see how they can mean anything else — then they...

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• Job 26:7 - 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 26:7 - 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 26:7 - 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 26:7 - 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 26:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He stretcheth out the north over the empty place ,.... The northern hemisphere, which is the chief and best known, at least it was in the time of Job, when the southern hemisphere might not be known...

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• Job 26:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing. Ver. 7. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place ] Heb. Over Tohu. Aristotle saith, that beyond the...

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• Job 26:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He stretcheth out the north The northern part of the heavens, which he particularly mentions, and puts for the whole visible heavens, because Job and his friends lived in a northern climate; over...

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• Job 26:7 - 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 26:7 - 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 26:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The north, i.e. the northern pole, or part of the heavens, which he particularly mentions, and puts for the whole visible heaven, because Job and his friends lived in a northern climate, and were a...

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• Job 26:7 - 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 26:7 - 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 26:7 - 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 26:7 - 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 26:7 - 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 26:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Genesis 1:1 ; Genesis 1:2 ; Isaiah 40:22 ; Isaiah 40:26 ; Isaiah 42:5 ; Job 9:8 ; Proverbs 8:23-27 ; Psalms 104:2-5 ; Psalms 24:2

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• Job 26:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  North — The northern part of the heavens, which is put for the whole visible heaven, because Job and his friends lived in a northern climate. Nothing — Upon no props or pillars, but his own power a...

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