“Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.”
Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high places, asserting divine sovereignty and omnipotence as the foundation for Bildad's response to Job's complaint about cosmic injustice. The emphasis on dominion and fear suggests that Bildad's answer to Job's demand for justice is not comfort but a reaffirmation of divine transcendence and power. The making of peace in high places—the heavenly realm—implies that cosmic order and justice already obtain in the divine realm, even if the earthly realm seems chaotic. Bildad's strategy appears to be reasserting traditional theology: the universe is ordered, God controls it, and therefore trust is more appropriate than complaint.
Church Fathers on Job 25:2
Dominion and fear are with Him; Who maketh peace in His high places. As though he expressed himself in plain words; ‘He only truly terrifies the hearts of mortals, who by the power of His Divine nature truly possesses these.’ For what terror does the power of man infuse, which knows not when it may lack the light of that power? Now it is rightly said, He maketh peace in His high places. Because there are many things at variance with themselves below, but they run answerably…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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