Job 26:2
“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
Majority Standard Bible
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
3How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
Cross References
1 Kings 18:27At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”
Job 6:12Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?
Job 12:2“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
Job 27:12Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?
Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
Isaiah 41:5The islands see and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward.
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 →