job 26 and 27

Read Job 26 and 27 at Bible Gateway.

Hebrew paragraph divisions

For the series of speeches from Job 3:2-28:10, the Hebrew paragraph divisions for each man’s speech are like the divisions in the Psalms that we studied in 2014. There is an understood {s} division at the end of each numbered line, with an {n} marking where a new line begins within a numbered line. There are two {n} divisions in the speeches from Job 22:1-23:17.

Job 26:14a Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, And how small a whisper we hear of Him! {n}
Job 27:5a Far be it from me that I should say you are right; {n}

Job 26:1 begins Job’s reply to his friends, which continues until Job 31:40.

Job 26:1-14 Chiastic structure

1a) Job 26:1-4, The lack of power + understanding of Bildad’s counsel/ Whose spirit is inspiring him:

1b) Job 26:5, The dead tremble, those under the waters and those inhabiting them;

1c) Job 26:6-7, Sheol + Destruction exposed before God/ God’s authority seen in the earth:

1) 6 Sheol is naked before Him, and Destruction has no covering;
2) 7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing;

central axis) Job 26:8, He binds up the water in His thick clouds, yet the clouds are not broken under it;

2c) Job 26:9-10, His throne clothed, covered before men/ God’s authority seen in the waters:

1) 9 He covers the face of His throne, And spreads His cloud over it;
2) 10 He encircled a boundary on the face of the waters, at the confines of light and darkness;

2b) Job 26:11, The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at His rebuke;

2a) Job 26:12-14, The Lord’s great power + understanding/ His Spirit the agent of His action: