We Know Practically Nothing About God - Job 25-26

Job 26:7-14 (ESV)

He stretches out the north over the void

and hangs the earth on nothing.

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,

and the cloud is not split open under them.

He covers the face of the full moon

and spreads over it his cloud.

He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters

at the boundary between light and darkness.

The pillars of heaven tremble

and are astounded at his rebuke.

By his power he stilled the sea;

by his understanding he shattered Rahab.

By his wind the heavens were made fair;

his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways,

and how small a whisper do we hear of him!

But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

Job, once again, is confronted by one of his comforters.  Bildad has come before him and described him as a maggot, as a worm, in the proceeding chapter.

Job 25:5-6 (ESV)

Behold, even the moon is not bright,

and the stars are not pure in his eyes;

how much less man, who is a maggot,

and the son of man, who is a worm!”

Bildad wants Job to know how pure God is.  He rightly says that, compared to God, we are nothing more than a worm; if even that.   Job is not debating with Bildad, however.  

In the above verses Job, himself, confirms the mighty power of God. He confirms how awesome God is and how little we actually know about that awesomness. Notice how Job describes God:

Verse 7 - He is powerful enough to hang the earth in the universe on nothing. 

Verse. 8 - He has puffy clouds hold tons of water. 

Verse 9 - He hangs the moon in the sky.

Verse 10 - He can keep light from dark separated.

Verse 11 - He shakes the heavens with thunder.

Verse 12 - He can make the entire sea calm, but can completely destroy a city. 

Verse 13 - His breath can be a fair breeze and yet by His hand He controls even the lowly serpent. 

In the last verse we read Job’s main point.  We know all this about God and yet we know nothing at all.  All we know about God is like the pop of an old child’s cap-gun compared to the destruction of a neutron bomb.   

Job is not moved any more by his friends’ words of comfort, hat are more like darts in his eyes.  He is moved by the power of God, which is like arrows in his heart.