Job 26:4
To whom have thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
In Context
3How thou have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
5Those who are deceased tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants of it.
Cross References
1 Kings 22:23Now therefore, behold, LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and LORD has spoken evil concerning thee.
Job 32:18for I am full of words. The spirit within me compels me.
1 Corinthians 12:3Therefore I make known to you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed, and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, except by Holy Spirit.
Revelation 16:13And I saw out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the FALSE prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.
Matthew Henry on Job 26:2-5
Job's Reproof of Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But Job answered and said, 2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? 3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? 4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? One would not have thought that Job, when he was in so much pain and misery, could banter his friend as he does here and make himself merry with the impertinency of his… Read the whole commentary →