Job 26:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. ”

Job 26:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds - That is, he seems to do it, or to collect the waters in the clouds, as in bottles or vessels. The clouds appear to hold the waters, as if bound up,...
Job 26:8 - 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...
Job 26:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. He bindeth up the waters - Drives the aqueous particles together, which were raised by evaporation, so that, being...
Job 26:8 - 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...
Job 26:8 - 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.
Job 26:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

He bindeth up the waters. — The idea of the waters being bound up in the clouds, so that the clouds are not rent thereby, is similar to that in Genesis 1:7 . The conception is that of a vast treas...
Job 26:8 - 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...
Job 26:8 - 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...
Job 26:8 - 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...
Job 26:8 - 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,...
Job 26:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ,.... The clouds are of his making; when he utters his voice, or gives the word of command, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and the vapour...
Job 26:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. Ver. 8. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ] Heb. Clouds, which yet have their name from thickness, be...
Job 26:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He bindeth up the waters Those fluid and heavy bodies, pressing downward with great force; in his thick clouds As it were in bags, keeping them there suspended often for a long time; and the clo...
Job 26:8 - 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...
Job 26:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Wisdom and Power of God. B. C. 1520. 5 Dead things are formed from under the wat...
Job 26:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This also is a miraculous work of God, considering the nature of these waters, which are fluid and heavy, and pressing downward, especially being ofttimes there in great abundance; and withal, the qu...
Job 26:8 - 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...
Job 26:8 - 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...
Job 26:8 - 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...
Job 26:8 - 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...
Job 26:8 - 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...
Job 26:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 1:6 ; Genesis 1:7 ; Isaiah 5:6 ; Jeremiah 10:13 ; Job 36:29 ; Job 37:11-16 ; Job 38:37 ; Job 38:9 ; Proverbs 30:4 ; Psalms 135:7 ; Psalms 18:10 ; Psalms 18:11

Job 26:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 26:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 26:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 26:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 26:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 26:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 26:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 26:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 26:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 26:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 26:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 26:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 26:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 26:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 26:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 26:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 26:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 26:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 26:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 26:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 26:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 26:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge