Job 25:2
“Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
In Context
1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
3Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:11Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
Job 26:5The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
Psalms 66:3Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
Psalms 99:1The LORD reigns; let the nations tremble! He is enthroned above the cherubim; let the earth quake!
Isaiah 57:19bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.”
Daniel 4:34But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
Matthew Henry on Job 25:2-6
God Exalted and Man Abased. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places. 3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise? 4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? 5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. 6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm? Bildad is to be commended here… Read the whole commentary →