Job 26:3
How hast thou counselled the unwise? and what sound wisdom hast thou made known so plentifully?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
2What assistance hast thou given to the powerless? [how] hast thou helped the arm without strength?
4To whom hast thou told words? and whose spirit came from thee?
Cross References
Job 12:2Truly ye are indeed the [right kind of] people, and with you wisdom must die out.
Job 13:5Oh, who would grant that ye might keep a profound silences! and it would he accounted unto you as wisdom.
Job 17:10But all of you, do only return, and come but [to me]: and yet I shall not find among you one wise man.
Job 33:3Out of my straightforward heart [come] my sayings, and my lips utter knowledge clearly.
Job 38:2Who is this that casteth darkness [on my] counsel by words without knowledge?
Psalms 71:15My mouth shall relate thy righteousness, all the day thy salvation; for I know not their numbers.
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 →