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"Dominion and fear are with him; He makes peace in his high places.
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God's Absolute Sovereignty
Commentators agree that "dominion" refers to God's absolute, universal, and uncontrollable sovereignty over all creation, including angels and nations. The "fear" mentioned is not God's own fear, but the reverence and awe He rightly inspires in all of His creation, from the mightiest angels to the humblest person.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Dominion and fear are with him - That is, God has a right to rule, and He should be regarded with reverence. The object of Bildad i…
19th Century
Anglican
Dominion and fear are with him. — He is absolute in sovereignty and awesome in power, so that even in His high places, an…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Dominion and fear [are] with him Not with man, as Sephorno interprets it as meaning he has power to rule over the im…
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Bildad sets aside the question about the prosperity of wicked men, but shows the infinite distance that exists between God and man. He presents to …
13th Century
Catholic
In his answer, Job had now refuted the two false accusations that Eliphaz had thrown at him in his previous response (Job 22:5, 12). He…
