Job 26:3
What good advice you have given to this ignorant man, demonstrating you have so much wisdom.
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2“How helpful you have been to this feeble man that I am. How supportive you have been to the weak.
4Who helped you speak these words? Who inspired you to say such things?
Cross References
Job 12:2“You really think you're special people, don't you? Obviously when you die, wisdom will die with you!
Job 13:5I wish you would all be quiet! That would be the wisest thing for you to do.
Job 17:10Why don't you come back and repeat again what you've been saying?—yet I still won't find a wise man among you!
Job 33:3My words come from my upright heart; my lips speak sincerely of what I know.
Job 38:2“Who is this who questions my wisdom by talking so ignorantly?
Psalms 71:15I will talk about your goodness and your salvation every day, even though it's more than I can understand.
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 →