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Job 26:1–4 – Job exposes empty counsel

What happens: Job answers with irony: “How you have helped the powerless.” He asks who inspired their words.

What it means: Comfort without love is noise. God desires words that build up the weak. Self-aware counsel starts with humility.

Job 26:5–10 – God’s rule over the unseen and the cosmos

What happens: Job says the departed tremble, Sheol is naked before God, and nothing is hidden. God stretches the north over emptiness and hangs the earth on nothing. He binds waters in thick clouds and marks the horizon on the waters.

What it means: God’s knowledge and power reach every realm. Creation displays his wisdom and order. Nothing escapes his sight.

Job 26:11–14 – Glimpses of God’s power

What happens: The pillars of heaven quake at his rebuke. By his power he stills the sea and by his hand he pierces the fleeing serpent. These are but the outskirts of his ways, a whisper of his thunder.

What it means: What we see of God is only the edge. His greatness dwarfs our understanding. Awe leads to worship and quiet trust.

Application

  • Measure counsel by whether it helps the weak.
  • Let creation’s order move you to praise the Creator.
  • Walk humbly, remembering we grasp only a whisper of God’s power.

Bible

1But Job answered and said,

2How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

4To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

5Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

6Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

7He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

8He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

9He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.

10He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

11The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

12He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

13By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

14Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

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