Job 26:2--27:12
[How has thou.]
Bildad had produced no argument to refute Job's doctrine; and therefore Job ironically admires the assistance which Bildad had given to his friends in their extremity, and the instruction he had afforded him in his perplexity.
helped <05826> [helped.]
advised <03289> [counselled.]
abundantly <07230> [plentifully.]
spirit <05397> [whose spirit.]
dead tremble <07496 02342> [Dead things.]
Or, "The giants {repha‹m} are in anguish under the waters and their inhabitants;" probably in allusion to the destruction of the earth by the deluge.
live <07931> [and. or, with.]
underworld <07585> [Hell.]
destruction <011> [destruction.]
locks <06887> [bindeth up.]
clouds <05645> [thick clouds.]
clouds <06051> [and the cloud.]
marks out <02328> [compassed.]
light <0216> [until.]
boundary ... light ... darkness <02822 08503 0216> [day and night come to an end. Heb. end of light with darkness.]
pillars <05982> [pillars.]
amazed <08539> [are astonished.]
stills <07280> [divideth.]
cut <04272> [he smiteth.]
Rahab <07293> [the proud. Heb. pride.]
breath <07307> [his spirit.]
fleeing serpent <01281 05175> [the crooked serpent.]
whisper <08102> [how little.]
thunder <07482> [the thunder.]
Job <0347> [Job.]
again <03254> [continued. Heb. added to take up.]
surely ... God <02416 0410> [God liveth.]
denied <05493> [taken.]
life bitter <05315 04843> [vexed my soul. Heb. made my soul bitter.]
breath ... God <0433 07307> [the spirit of God. that is, the breath which God gave him.]
right <06663> [justify.]
set aside <05493> [I will not.]
maintain .......... conscience <02388 07503> [I hold fast.]
as ... as ... live <03824> [my heart.]
long <03117> [so long as I live. Heb. from my days.]
God <0410> [Will God.]
cry <06818> [his cry.]
delight <06026> [delight.]
times <06256> [will he always.]
teach <03384> [teach.]
power <03027> [by the hand. or, being in the hand, etc. that which.]
seen <02372> [ye yourselves.]
meaningless <01892> [altogether.]
