Job 26:1

Job. Now begins the long discourse of Job, which ends with ch. 31. In this speech Job, after hastily brushing aside Bildad’s last speech, proceeds to explain his viewpoints. He sets forth, first of all, the might and majesty of God (ch. 26:5-14). Then he deals with the questions that concern his own integrity and God’s dealings with mankind. The former he still maintains. Regarding the latter, he admits that retribution comes upon the wicked at last (ch. 27). In ch. 28, after paying a deserved tribute to man’s intelligence and ingenuity in regard to earthly things, he pronounces the spiritual world and the principles of the divine government to be inscrutable to him, and his only true wisdom to be right conduct. Finally he returns to his own case, and having given a description of his former, prosperous life (ch. 29) contrasted with his present, forlorn life (ch. 30), he concludes with an avowal of his integrity in all the various duties and obligations of life (ch. 31).