Job 26:4
To whom hast thou told words? and whose spirit came from thee?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
In Context
3How hast thou counselled the unwise? and what sound wisdom hast thou made known so plentifully?
5The departed are called into being beneath the waters, and their inhabitants.
Cross References
1 Kings 22:23And now, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets; but the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee.
Job 32:18For I am full of words, the spirit in my bosom urgeth me hard.
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 →