Job 26:11

The pillars of heaven tremble. — The phenomenon of storm and tempest is alluded to.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The pillars of Heaven tremble - That is, the mountains, which seem to bear up the heavens. So, among the ancients. Mount Atlas was represented as...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

The (k) pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. (k) Not that heaven has pillars to uphold it, but he speaks by a similitude as...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

tremble... astonished. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia . App-6.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. The pillars of heaven tremble - This is probably a poetical description either of th...
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...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The mountains (see on Job 9:6 ) tremble in the earthquake.
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 h...
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...
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...
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)...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The pillars of heaven tremble ,.... Which may be understood either of the air, the lower part of the heavens, which may be thought to be the foundat...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. Ver. 11. The pillars of heaven tremble ] i.e. The angels, say some, who tremble...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The pillars of heaven tremble Perhaps the mountains, which by their height and strength seem to reach and support the heavens. And are astonished...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Wisdom and Power of God. B. C. 1520. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The pillars of heaven; either, 1. Those mountains which by their height and strength may seem to reach and support the heavens, as the poets said...
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,...
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 su...
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 brou...
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...
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 b...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The pillars of heaven, the great mountains which seem to bear on their summits the great vault of heaven, tremble and are astonished at His reproof,...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 2:8 ; 2 Peter 3:10 ; Haggai 2:21 ; Hebrews 12:26 ; Hebrews 12:27 ; Job 15:15 ; Psalms 18:7 ; Revelation 20:11
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Pillars — Perhaps the mountains which by their height and strength seem to reach and support the heavens. Astonished — When God reproveth not them,...

¹¹ The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

Related Commentaries of Job 26:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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