Job 26:4
With whom have you declared words? And whose breath came forth from you?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
In Context
3How you have given counsel to the unwise, || And made known wise plans in abundance.
5The Rephaim are formed, || Also their inhabitants beneath the waters.
Cross References
1 Kings 22:23And now, behold, YHWH has put a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and YHWH has spoken calamity concerning you.”
Job 32:18For I have been full of words, || The spirit of my breast has distressed me,
1 Corinthians 12:3for this reason, I give you to understand that no one, speaking in the Spirit of God, says Jesus [is] accursed, and no one is able to say Jesus [is] LORD, except in the Holy Spirit.
Revelation 16:13and I saw [come] out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs—
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 →