Job 26:4
With whose help hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
In Context
3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
5The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.
Cross References
1 Kings 22:23Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets; and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.'
Job 32:18For I am full of words; the spirit within me constraineth me.
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 →