Job 26:3
To 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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In Context
2Whose assistant are you? Is he weak-minded? And do you sustain the arm of him that is not strong?
4Who is it that you wanted to teach? Was it not him that created the breath of life?
Cross References
Job 12:2Are you, therefore, alone among men, and will wisdom die with you?
Job 13:5And I wish that you would remain silent, so that you would be counted among the wise.
Job 17:10Therefore, be converted, all of you, and approach, for I do not find in you any wisdom.
Job 33:3My words are from my simple heart, and my lips will speak a pure judgment.
Job 38:2Who is this that wraps sentences in unskilled words?
Psalms 71:15And he will live, and to him will be given from the gold of Arabia, and by him they will always adore. They will bless him all day long.
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 →