Job 26:2
Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him that has no strength?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
Cross References
1 Kings 18:27And when it was now noon, Elias jested at them, saying: Cry with a louder voice: for he is a God, and perhaps he is talking, or is in an inn, or on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep, and must be awaked.
Job 6:12My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of brass.
Job 12:2Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?
Job 27:12Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?
Isaiah 35:3Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees.
Isaiah 41:5The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came.
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 →