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Job
Chapter
26
{Chapters
22-31: The Third Debate}
{Chapters
25-31: Third Debate with Bildad}
{Chapters
26-31: Job Responds in a long Rebuttal}
{Job
Says You do Not Comfort a Person In Suffering By Calling them A
Maggot and a Worm}
1-2~~But
Job answered and said, 2~~
"How
you {Bildad} have helped him who is powerless {Job}.
{sarcasm - calling him a worm did not help Job at all!}
How you have saved the arm of the feeble.
3~~What
advice you have offered
to
one without wisdom {sarcasm continues}.
And what great insight you have displayed.
4~~Who has helped you utter these words?
And, whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
{Note: These men have been speaking from their own self-righteous arrogance. Their doctrine has been fairly straight, but their application horrible. They are vile and despicable in their judging and maligning of Job.}
{Job
Speaks of God In Terms of Respect}
5-6~~The
dead are in deep anguish. . .
those
beneath the waters . . .
and
all that live in them . . . 6~~
death/hell/Sheol
{sh@'owl} is naked before Him {God} . . .
destruction
lies uncovered.
7~~He {God} spreads out the northern skies over empty space.
He suspended the Earth over nothing.
{Note: Job's understanding of the Earth was so much better then those in the Middle Ages who believed the Earth was just a chunk of land and if you go off the end, that is it.}
8~~He wraps up waters in clouds.
Yet the cloud's do not burst under them/'under their weight'.
9~~He
covers the face of the full moon,
spreading
His cloud between it.
10~~He
marks out the horizon on the face of the waters
for
a boundary between light and darkness.
11~~The pillars of heaven quake . . . aghast at His rebuke.
12~~By His power, He churned up the sea.
By
His wisdom, He cut up the proud
{referring to the ancient armies of Egypt}.
13~~By His breath/spirit, the skies became fair.
His hand pierces the gliding serpent.
14~~And, these are but the outer fringe of His ways/works.
How faint the whisper we hear of Him.
Who then can understand the thunder of His power?"
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