Job 26:2

To whom dost thou attach thyself, or whom art thou going to assist? 1 Is it not he that has much strength, and he who has a strong arm? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

1But Job answered and said, 1

3To whom hast thou given counsel? is it not to him who has all wisdom? 1 Whom wilt thou follow? is it not one who has the greatest power? 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 18:27And it was noon, and Elijah the Tishbite mocked them, and said, Call with a loud voice, for he is a god; for he is meditating, or else perhaps he is engaged in business, or perhaps he is asleep, and is to be awakened.

Job 6:12Is my strength the strength of stones? 1 Or is my flesh of brass? 1

Job 12:2So then ye alone are men, 1 And wisdom shall die with you? 1

Job 27:12Behold, ye all know that ye are adding vanity to vanity. 1

Isaiah 35:3Be strong, ye relaxed hands and palsied knees.

Isaiah 41:5The nations saw, and feared; the ends of the earth drew nigh, and came together,

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 →

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