Job 26:4
To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
In Context
3How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
5The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
Cross References
1 Kings 22:23So you see, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours, and the LORD has pronounced disaster against you.”
Job 32:18For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
1 Corinthians 12:3Therefore I inform you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can call Jesus Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.
Revelation 16:13And I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet.
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 →