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Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
Job 25:2 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB “Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.
  • BSB “Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.
  • NKJV “Dominion and fear belong to Him; He makes peace in His high places.
  • NASB “Dominion and awe belong to Him Who makes peace in His heights.
  • NLT “God is powerful and dreadful. He enforces peace in the heavens.

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Quick answer

Bildad exalts God's dominion, dread, and peacemaking in the heavens. It matters because it rightly affirms God's supreme majesty.

Overview

Bildad declares that dominion and fear belong to God, who establishes order in His high places. The statement is true and reverent, magnifying God's sovereign rule over all. Yet Bildad uses this truth to crush Job rather than comfort him, missing that the same majestic God also draws near to the afflicted in Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Rev 6:16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
  • Col 1:20And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
  • Isa 57:19I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
  • Eph 1:20–21Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
  • Job 26:5–14Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
  • 1 Chr 29:11–12Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
  • Matt 28:18And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
  • Eph 2:16–17And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
  • Jude 1:25To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
  • 2 Cor 5:18–21And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
  • Ps 99:1–3The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
  • Jer 10:6–7Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
  • Job 40:9–14Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
  • Job 9:2–10I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
  • Dan 4:34–37And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
  • Isa 57:15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
  • Matt 5:9Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
  • Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

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Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

How Job 25:2 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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