Chapter 26:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Esther Psalms
Job 26
Concise Complete
Job reproves Bildad. (1-4) Job acknowledges the power of
God. (5-14)
Verses 1-4 Job
derided Bildad's answer; his words were a mixture of peevishness and
self-preference. Bildad ought to have laid before Job the consolations, rather
than the terrors of the Almighty. Christ knows how to speak what is proper for
the weary,
isaiah 50:4; and his ministers should not grieve those whom God would not have made sad. We
are often disappointed in our expectations from our friends who should comfort
us; but the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, never mistakes, nor fails of his end.
Verses 5-14 Many
striking instances are here given of the wisdom and power of God, in the
creation and preservation of the world. If we look about us, to the earth and
waters here below, we see his almighty power. If we consider hell beneath,
though out of our sight, yet we may conceive the discoveries of God's power
there. If we look up to heaven above, we see displays of God's almighty power.
By his Spirit, the eternal Spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, the
breath of his mouth,
psalms
33:6, he has not only made the heavens, but beautified them. By redemption,
all the other wonderful works of the Lord are eclipsed; and we may draw near,
and taste his grace, learn to love him, and walk with delight in his ways. The
ground of the controversy between Job and the other disputants was, that they
unjustly thought from his afflictions that he must have been guilty of heinous
crimes. They appear not to have duly considered the evil and just desert of
original sin; nor did they take into account the gracious designs of God in
purifying his people. Job also darkened counsel by words without knowledge. But
his views were more distinct. He does not appear to have alleged his personal
righteousness as the ground of his hope towards God. Yet what he admitted in a
general view of his case, he in effect denied, while he complained of his
sufferings as unmerited and severe; that very complaint proving the necessity
for their being sent, in order to his being further humbled in the sight of God.
Chapter 26:
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