Job 26:2

Whose assistant are you? Is he weak-minded? And do you sustain the arm of him that is not strong?

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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 responded by saying:

3To whom have you given advice? Perhaps it is to him that has no wisdom or prudence that you have revealed your many ideas.

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Cross References

1 Kings 18:27And when it was now midday, Elijah ridiculed them, saying: “Cry out with a louder voice. For he is a god, and perhaps he is talking, or at an inn, or on a journey, or certainly he may be asleep, and must be awakened.”

Job 6:12My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh made of bronze.

Job 12:2Are you, therefore, alone among men, and will wisdom die with you?

Job 27:12Behold, you know all this, and so why do you speak vain things without a reason?

Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the lax hands, and confirm the weak knees!

Isaiah 41:5The islands saw it and were afraid. The ends of the earth were stupefied. They drew near and arrived.

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 →

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