the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Job 26:12
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By his power he stirred the sea,and by his understanding he crushed Rahab.
He stirs up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he strikes through Rachav.
He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
With his power he quiets the sea; by his wisdom he destroys Rahab, the sea monster.
By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.
"He stirred up the sea by His power, And by His understanding He smashed [proud] Rahab.
"With His power He quieted the sea, And by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
He stirs up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
The sea is calme by his power, and by his vnderstanding he smiteth the pride thereof.
He quieted the sea with His power,And by His understanding He crushed Rahab.
By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
By his power and wisdom, God conquered the force of the mighty ocean.
He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his skill he strikes down Rahav.
He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.
With his own power God calmed the sea. With his wisdom he destroyed Rahab.
He rebukes the sea with his power, and by his wisdom he saves many.
It is his strength that conquered the sea; by his skill he destroyed the monster Rahab.
By his power he stilled the sea, and by his understanding he struck down Rahab.
With His power He quiets the sea, and by His understanding He shatters pride.
He stilleth the see with his power, & thorow his wy?dome hath he set forth ye worlde.
He stirreth up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.
By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
He stirreth up the sea with His power, and by His understanding He smiteth through Rahab.
Hee diuideth the sea with his power, and by his vnderstanding he smiteth through the proud.
He stilleth the sea with his power, and through his wysdome smyteth he the strength therof.
He has calmed the sea with his might, and by his wisdom the whale has been overthrown.
He stirreth up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.
In the strengthe of hym the sees weren gaderid togidere sudeynly, and his prudence smoot the proude.
He stirs up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he smites through Rahab.
He divideth the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
He stirs up the sea with His power, And by His understanding He breaks up the storm.
By his power the sea grew calm. By his skill he crushed the great sea monster.
He made the sea quiet by His power. And by His understanding He destroyed Rahab.
By his power he stilled the Sea; by his understanding he struck down Rahab.
By his strength, hath he excited the sea, and, by his skill, hath he shattered the Crocodile:
By his power the seas are suddenly gathered together, and his wisdom has struck the proud one.
By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he smote Rahab.
By His power He hath quieted the sea, And by His understanding smitten the proud.
"He quieted the sea with His power, And by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
divideth: Exodus 14:21-31, Psalms 29:10, Psalms 74:13, Psalms 93:3, Psalms 93:4, Psalms 114:2-7, Isaiah 51:15, Jeremiah 31:35
he smiteth: Job 40:11, Job 40:12, Isaiah 2:12, Daniel 4:37, James 4:6
the proud: Heb. pride, Psalms 89:9, Psalms 89:10, Isaiah 51:9
Reciprocal: Job 9:10 - great things Job 9:13 - the proud helpers Job 36:5 - mighty Job 41:34 - he is Psalms 111:2 - works
Cross-References
And Abraham [is] old, he has entered into days, and YHWH has blessed Abraham in all [things];
and YHWH has blessed my lord exceedingly, and he is great; and He gives to him flock, and herd, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and donkeys;
sojourn in this land, and I am with you, and bless you, for to you and to your seed I give all these lands, and I have established the oath which I have sworn to your father Abraham;
and men of the place ask him of his wife, and he says, "She [is] my sister": for he has been afraid to say, "My wife—lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, for she [is] of good appearance."
And it comes to pass, when the days have been prolonged to him there, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looks through the window, and sees, and behold, Isaac is playing with his wife Rebekah.
And Abimelech says, "What [is] this you have done to us? As a little thing one of the people had lain with your wife, and you had brought on us guilt";
and Abimelech commands all the people, saying, "He who comes against this man or against his wife, dying does die."
do no evil with us, as we have not touched you, and as we have only done good with you, and send you away in peace; you [are] now blessed of YHWH."
for [it is] little which you have had at my appearance, and it breaks forth into a multitude, and YHWH blesses you at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for my own house?"
And YHWH has blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he has fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and one thousand pairs of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He divideth the sea with his power,.... As at the first creation, when the waters were caused to go off the face of the earth, and were separated from it; and the one was called earth, and the other seas, Genesis 1:9; or it may respect the division of those waters into divers seas and channels in the several parts of the world, for the better accommodation of the inhabitants of it, in respect of trade and commerce, and the more convenient supply of them with the various produce of different countries, and the transmitting of it to them: some have thought this has respect to the division of the Red sea for the children of Israel to walk in as on dry land, when pursued by the Egyptians, supposed to be meant by "Rahab" in the next clause; rather it may design the parting of the waves of the sea by a stormy wind, raised by the power of God, which lifts up the waves on high, and divides them in the sea, and dashes them one against another; wrinkles and furrows them, as Jarchi interprets the words, which is such an instance of the power and majesty or God, that he is sometimes described by it, Isaiah 51:15; though the word used is sometimes taken in a quite different sense, for the stilling of the waves of the sea, and so it is by some rendered here, "he stilleth the sea by his power" b; the noise of its waves, and makes them quiet, and the sea a calm, which has been exceeding boisterous and tempestuous, and is taken notice of as an effect of his sovereign and uncontrollable power, Psalms 65:7; and may be observed as a proof of our Lord's divinity, whom the winds and sea obeyed, to the astonishment of the mariners, who were convinced thereby that he must be some wonderful and extraordinary person, Matthew 8:26;
and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud; the proud waves of the sea, and humbles them, and makes them still, as before; or the proud monstrous creatures in it, as whales and others, particularly the leviathan, the king over all the children of pride, Job 41:34; see
Psalms 74:13. The word used is "Rahab", one of the names of Egypt,
Psalms 87:4; and so Jarchi interprets it of the Egyptians, who were smitten of God with various plagues, and particularly in their firstborn; and at last at the Red sea, where multitudes perished, and Pharaoh their proud king, with his army; who was an emblem of the devil, whose sin, the cause of his fall and ruin, was pride; and the picture of proud and haughty sinners, whose destruction sooner or later is from the Lord; and which is an instance of his wisdom and understanding, who humbles the proud, and exalts the lowly.
b רגע הים "pacavit mare", Bolducius; "quiescit mare ipsum", Vatablus; so Sept. and Ben Gersom.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He divideth the sea with His power - Herder renders this:
By his power he scourgeth the sea,
By his wisdom he bindeth its pride.
Jerome (Vulgate), “By his power the seas are suddenly congregated together The Septuagint, “By his power - κατέπαυσε την θάλασσαν katepause tēn thalassan - he makes the sea calm.” Luther, Vor seiner Kraft wird das Meer plotzlich ungestum - “By his power the sea becomes suddenly tempestuous.” Noyes renders it, “By his power he stilleth the sea.” This is undoubtedly the true meaning. There is no allusion here to the dividing of the sea when the Israelites left Egypt; but the ideals, that God has power to calm the tempest, and hush the waves into peace. The word used here (רגע râga‛) means, to make afraid, to terrify; especially, to restrain by threats; see the notes at Isaiah 51:15; compare Jeremiah 31:35. The reference here is to the exertion of the power of God, by which he is able to calm the tumultuous ocean, and to restore it to repose after a storm - one of the most striking exhibitions of omnipotence that can be conceived of.
By his understanding - By his wisdom.
He smiteth through - He scourges, or strikes - as if to punish.
The proud - The pride of the sea. The ocean is represented as enraged, and as lifted up with pride and rebellion. God scourges it, rebukes it, and makes it calm.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 26:12. He divideth the sea with his power — Here is a manifest allusion to the passage of the Red Sea by the Israelites, and the overthrow of Pharaoh and his host, according to the opinion of the most eminent critics.
He smiteth through the proud. — רהב Rahab, the very name by which Egypt is called Isaiah 51:9, and elsewhere. Calmet remarks: "This appears to refer only to the passage of the Red Sea, and the destruction of Pharaoh. Were we not prepossessed with the opinion that Job died before Moses, every person at the first view of the subject must consider it in this light." I am not thus prepossessed. Let Job live when he might, I am satisfied the Book of Job was written long after the death of Moses, and not earlier than the days of Solomon, if not later. The farther I go in the work, the more this conviction is deepened; and the opposite sentiment appears to be perfectly gratuitous.
