Job 26
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Job speaks sharp words to Bildad
Verse 1
WEB Then Job answered,
KJV But Job answered and said,
TSK No cross references.
Verse 2
WEB “How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
KJV How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
TSK How has thou: job 12:2, 1ki 18:27; helped: job 4:3,4, job 6:25, job 16:4,5, isa 35:3,4, isa 40:14, isa 41:5-7
Verse 3
WEB How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
KJV How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
TSK counselled: job 6:13, job 12:3, job 13:5, job 15:8-10, job 17:10, job 32:11-13; plentifully: job 33:3,33, job 38:2, ps 49:1-4, ps 71:15-18, pr 8:6-9, ac 20:20,27
Verse 4
WEB To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?
KJV To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
TSK whose spirit: job 20:3, job 32:18, 1ki 22:23,24, ec 12:7, 1co 12:3, 1jo 4:1-3, re 16:13,14
Job acknowledges the power of God
Verse 5
WEB “Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
KJV Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
TSK Dead things: job 41:1-34, ge 6:4, ps 104:25,26, eze 29:3-5
Verse 7
WEB He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
KJV He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
TSK He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.: job 9:8, ge 1:1,2, ps 24:2, ps 104:2-5, pr 8:23-27, isa 40:22,26, isa 42:5
Verse 8
WEB He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
KJV He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
TSK bindeth up: job 36:29, job 38:9,37, ge 1:6,7, ps 135:7, pr 30:4, jer 10:13; thick clouds: job 37:11-16, ps 18:10,11; and the cloud: isa 5:6
Verse 10
WEB He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
KJV He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
TSK compassed: job 38:8-11, ps 33:7, ps 104:6-9, pr 8:29, jer 5:22; until: ge 8:22, isa 54:9,10
Verse 12
WEB He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
KJV He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
TSK divideth: ex 14:21-31, ps 29:10, ps 74:13, ps 93:3,4, ps 114:2-7, isa 51:15, jer 31:35; he smiteth: job 40:11,12, isa 2:12, da 4:37, jas 4:6; the proud: ps 89:9,10, isa 51:9
Verse 14
WEB Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
KJV Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
TSK how little: job 11:7-9, ps 139:6, ps 145:3, isa 40:26-29, ro 11:33, 1co 13:9-12; the thunder: job 40:9, 1sa 2:10, ps 29:3