Job 26:4
To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
In Context
3How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
5The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
Cross References
1 Kings 22:23And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has said evil against you.
Job 32:18For I am full of words, I am unable to keep in my breath any longer:
1 Corinthians 12:3So it is my desire for you to be clear about this; that no one is able to say by the Spirit of God that Jesus is cursed; and no one is able to say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.
Revelation 16:13And I saw coming 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 →