Job 26

Job 26:1

4. Job’s Response (Chap. 26)26:1-4 First of all Job counters Bildad’s argument. Even granting that Job is without power and has no strength or wisdom, how has Bildad helped? His words have been futile, insensitive, and a total failure as an answer to Job’s arguments. 26:5-13 The rest of the chapter gives a marvelous description of God’s power in the universe: the evaporation/precipitation cycle; the density of the clouds; the cycle of light and darkness; the storm at sea; and the stars and constellations by which His Spirit has adorned the heavens. While Bildad stressed God’s glory in the heavens, Job here dwells on His power in the depths: under the waters, Sheol, and Destruction. Job describescenturies before science taught itthat God hangs the earth on nothing (which is a poetic depiction of the earth’s position and movement in the solar system). How immeasurably above the cosmogonies of the heathen philosophers are these few grand words! In them we have as in germ the discoveries of a Newton and a Keppler. It is a great mistake to think Scripture does not teach scientific truth. It teaches all needed truth, even if not in scientific language, yet with scientific accuracy. 26:14 If these wonders are only the edges of His ways, and a mere whisper we hear of Him, Job asks, what must the full thunder of His power be if not incomprehensible?