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Job 25:2

Job 25:2
Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Dominion and fear are with him,.... Not with man, as Sephorno interprets it, as that with him is power to rule over the imagination (the evil figment of his heart) to choose the good, and refuse the…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Dominion and fear are with him - That is, God has a right to rule, and he ought to be regarded with reverence. The object of Bildad is to show that He is so great and glorious that it is impossible…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 25:1-6

Bildad is to be commended here for two things: - 1. For speaking no more on the subject about which Job and he differed. Perhaps he began to think Job was in the right, and then it was justice to say…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

dominion and fear To God belongs rule, and His majesty inspires terror; He is the Omnipotent ruler over all.

his high places i. e. the heavens where He dwells. There He "maketh peace" through the…