Geneva Bible Notes: Job 26

Job 26:1 (!) Job sheweth that man can not helpe God, & proueth it by his miracles.

Job 26:2 (a) Thou concludest nothing: for nether you helpest me, which am destitute of all helpe, nether yet speakest sufficiently on Gods behalfe, who hathe no nede of thy defence.

Job 26:3 (b) But you doest not applie it to the purpose.

Job 26:4 (c) That is, moueth thee to speake this?

Job 26:5 (d) Job begineth to declare the force of Gods power & prouidence in the mines and metals in the depe places of the earth.

Job 26:6 (e) There is nothing hid in the bottom of the earth, but he seeth it.

Job 26:6 (f) Meaning, the graue wherein theings putrifie.

Job 26:7 (g) He causeth the whole heauen to turne about the North pole.

Job 26:9 (h) That is, he hideth, the heauens, which are called his throne.

Job 26:10 (i) So long as this worlde endureth.

Job 26:11 (k) Not that heauen hathe pillers to vpholde it, but he speaketh by a similitude, as thogh he wolde say, The heauen it self is not able to abide his reproche.

Job 26:13 (l) Which is a figure of starres facioned like a serpent, because of the crookednes.

Job 26:14 (m) If these fewe things, which we se daily with our eyes, declare his great power and prouidence, how muche more wolde they appeare, if we were able to comprehend all his workes?