6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.
Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!
Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:
And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.
Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)
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Commentary on Job 26 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 26
This is Job's short reply to Bildad's short discourse, in which he is so far from contradicting him that he confirms what he had said, and out-does him in magnifying God and setting forth his power, to show what reason he had still to say, as he did (ch. 13:2), "What you know, the same do I know also.'
Job 26:1-4
One would not have thought that Job, when he was in so much pain and misery, could banter his friend as he does here and make himself merry with the impertinency of his discourse. Bildad thought that he had made a fine speech, that the matter was so weighty, and the language so fine, that he had gained the reputation both of an oracle and of an orator; but Job peevishly enough shows that his performance was not so valuable as he thought it and ridicules him for it. He shows,
Job 26:5-14
The truth received a great deal of light from the dispute between Job and his friends concerning those points about which they differed; but now they are upon a subject in which they were all agreed, the infinite glory and power of God. How does truth triumph, and how brightly does it shine, when there appears no other strife between the contenders than which shall speak most highly and honourably of God and be most copious in showing forth his praise! It were well if all disputes about matters of religion might end thus, in glorifying God as Lord of all, and our Lord, with one mind and one mouth (Rom. 15:6); for to that we have all attained, in that we are all agreed.