“ He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it. ”
He holdeth back the face of his throne - That is, he does not exhibit it - he covers it with clouds. The idea seems to be, that God sometimes comes forth and manifests himself to mankind, but tha...
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...
He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it. He holdeth back the face of his throne - Though all these are most elegant effects of an omniscient and almighty power, yet...
He holdeth back the face of his throne, &c.— He covereth the place of his immediate presence, spreading his cloud over it. Heath.
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.
He holdeth back the face. — Or, covereth the face of his throne in the heavens, spreading his rack of cloud upon it.
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,...
He holdeth back the face of his throne ,.... His throne is the heaven of heavens; the face of it, or what is before it, is the starry and airy heavens; this face of his throne is sometimes held back...
He holdeth back the face of his throne, [and] spreadeth his cloud upon it. Ver. 9. He holdeth back the face of his throne ] i.e. Of heaven, Isaiah 66:1 , which he soon overcloudeth and muffleth...
He holdeth back Namely, from our view, that its effulgent brightness may not dazzle our sight; the face of his throne The heaven of heavens: where he dwells, its light and glory being too great f...
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...
He holdeth back, i.e. to wit, from our view, that its lustre and glory should not reach us, and so dazzle our sight; he covereth it with a cloud, as the next words explain it. Or, he holdeth fast...
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 Kings 8:12 ; 1 Timothy 6:16 ; Exodus 20:21 ; Exodus 33:20-23 ; Exodus 34:3 ; Habakkuk 3:3-5 ; Psalms 97:2
Holdeth — From our view, that his glory may not dazzle our sight; he covereth it with a cloud. Throne — The heaven of heavens, where he dwelleth.