Job 26:3
How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
4To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
Cross References
Job 12:2“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
Job 13:5If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!
Job 17:10But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
Job 33:3My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.
Job 38:2“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
Psalms 71:15My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.
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 →