Job 26:2
What assistance hast thou given to the powerless? [how] hast thou helped the arm without strength?
Leeser Tanakh
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
3How hast thou counselled the unwise? and what sound wisdom hast thou made known so plentifully?
Cross References
1 Kings 18:27And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked at them, and said, Call with a loud voice; for he is a god; either he is holding council, or he is busy in some pursuit, or he is on a journey; or peradventure he sleepeth, and may thus awaken.
Job 6:12Is the strength of stones my strength? or is my flesh brazen?
Job 12:2Truly ye are indeed the [right kind of] people, and with you wisdom must die out.
Job 27:12Lo! ye yourselves have all beheld it: why is it then that ye deal in such vanities?
Isaiah 35:3Strengthen ye weak hands, and stumbling knees make ye firm.
Isaiah 41:5The isles saw it, and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they draw near, and come.
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 →