...testimony in several passages. In Job 26:13, for instance, as translated in the Authorized Version, "By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent." Translators have struggled with this verse. The American Standard Version translates it: "By his Spirit...

...it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand. Job 26:13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. Eccles. 10:8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall...

...the monster becomes unpronounceable, the battle with it must be at least metaphorically portrayed: "He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smitheth through the proud" (Job 26:11). The fantastic shadow of the monster reappears in the New Testament,...

...as a warrior, as it is said, 'The Lord is a man of war (Exodus 15:3)', and it says, 'He stirreth up the sea with His power, and by His understanding He smiteth through Rahab (Job 26:12).'72 Yet, today, at the giving of the Law, He came 'Go, meet Moses in the Wilderness!...

...Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south " (viz., the southern cross). JOB«xxvi. 13: " By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent " (viz., the constellation Scorpio). JOB xxxvii. 31 : " Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades,...

...of 41 Draco," or the Dragon (between the Great and Little Bear), is referred to in Job xxvi. 13 : " By His Spirit He hath garnished the heavens ; His hand hath formed the crooked serpent (Rv swift. Marg. fleeing or gliding. See Is. xxvii. I ; xliii. 14)." This word " garnished" is peculiar....

...to an end. The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at His reproof. He divideth the sea by His power, and by His understanding He smiteth through...garnished the heavens; His hand hath formed the crooked serpent.210 Lo, these are parts of His ways: but how little a portion is heard of Him? but the thunder...

...the cloud is not rent under them ... The Pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. He divideth the sea with his power and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud ... Lo, these are part of his ways, but how little a portion is heard of him? But the thunder of his...

..."hanging"17: "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent" (Job 26:7, 13). If Teli may be said to define space in terms of a universal axis, Galgal, whose primary...

...and in later times interpreted to be Satan. Thus Job, speaking of the Almighty, Rays : " Ho stilleth the sea with His power, And by His understanding He smiteth through Hahah . . . His hand hath pierced the gliding serpent " (xxvi. 12, 13). Here the Septnagint translates...