re Re: MDDM Ch. 75 Job, 26:5 through 7

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Wed Sep 11 00:52:50 CDT 2002


Minor point of correction:  the book of Job attributes these lines to Job
himself, not one of his interlocutors.  The passage below is from the New
International Version.

 jbor :
> The lines from Job (sometimes attributed to Bildad the
>Shuhite),

http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=JOB+26&language=english&versio
n=NIV&showfn=on&showxref=on

Job 26


Job

1 Then Job replied:

2 "How you have helped the powerless!
How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
And what great insight you have displayed!
4 Who has helped you utter these words?
And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?

5 "The dead are in deep anguish,
those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6 Death [1] is naked before God;
Destruction [2] lies uncovered.
7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
he suspends the earth over nothing.
8 He wraps up the waters in his clouds,
yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
9 He covers the face of the full moon,
spreading his clouds over it.
10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters
for a boundary between light and darkness.
11 The pillars of the heavens quake,
aghast at his rebuke.
12 By his power he churned up the sea;
by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
13 By his breath the skies became fair;
his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
how faint the whisper we hear of him!
Who then can understand the thunder of his power?"


Other translations attributie  this speech to Job, including the
King James Version
http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=JOB%2B26&showfn=on&showxref=on
&language=english&version=KJV&x=10&y=9


It's Job rebuking Bildad.

 jbor :
> The lines from Job (sometimes attributed to Bildad the
>Shuhite), which are reproduced in the text, affirm the existence of Hell and
>the spirits of the dead underneath the earth. Dixon turns to the Bible, and
>the Book of Job where one man's faith in God is severely tested, in order to
>counteract the doubts about *Science* which the Hollow Earthers have seeded
>in his mind. Jere wants to believe that he has experienced a vision of Hell
>rather than a supernatural (or extra-terrestrial) encounter.


Just curious, but how would a Biblical affirmation of Hell counteract
doubts about Science?


Verse 7 of this passage from Job would seem to visualize a hollow earth
entered through a polar opening:
7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
he suspends the earth over nothing.


God, as depicted in Job, has power and dimensions beyond the perceptual
capabilities of the human Sensorium, affirming not the Science project that
will erase the possibility of a hollow earth but that the universe is a
place infinitely more mysterious than any human science will ever
comprehend.




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