Job 26:2
“How helpful you have been to this feeble man that I am. How supportive you have been to the weak.
Free Bible Version
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
3What good advice you have given to this ignorant man, demonstrating you have so much wisdom.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:27At noon Elijah began to mock them. “Shout really loud!” he said. “Isn't he meant to be a god? Maybe he's meditating, or he's gone to the bathroom, or he's away on a trip! Maybe he's asleep and has to be woken up!”
Job 6:12Am I as strong as rock? Am I made out of bronze?
Job 12:2“You really think you're special people, don't you? Obviously when you die, wisdom will die with you!
Job 27:12If all of you have recognized this, why do you talk such vain nonsense?
Isaiah 35:3Make the weak hands strong, and make the trembling knees firm!
Isaiah 41:5The islands watch in fear, the distant lands tremble. They get together and consult.
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 →