Job 26:3
How you have given counsel to the unwise, || And made known wise plans in abundance.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2“How you have helped the powerless, || Saved an arm not strong!
4With whom have you declared words? And whose breath came forth from you?
Cross References
Job 12:2“Truly—you [are] the people, and wisdom dies with you.
Job 13:5O that you would keep perfectly silent, || And it would be to you for wisdom.
Job 17:10But please return and come in, all of you, || And I do not find a wise man among you.
Job 33:3Of the uprightness of my heart [are] my sayings, || And my lips have clearly spoken knowledge.
Job 38:2“Who [is] this—darkening counsel, || By words without knowledge?
Psalms 71:15My mouth recounts Your righteousness, || All the day Your salvation, || For I have not known the 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 →