Job 26:2
How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
In Context
1Then Job made answer and said,
3How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
Cross References
1 Kings 18:27And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.
Job 6:12Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh brass?
Job 12:2No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.
Job 27:12Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?
Isaiah 35:3Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.
Isaiah 41:5The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near.
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 →