Job 26:2
“How you have helped one who has no power! 1 How you have saved the arm that has no strength! 1
Unlocked Literal 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
1Then Job answered and said, 1
3How you have advised one who has no wisdom 1 and announced to him sound knowledge! 1
Cross References
1 Kings 18:27At noon Elijah mocked them and said, “Shout out loudly! He is a god! Perhaps he is thinking, or is relieving himself, or he is traveling on a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened.”
Job 6:12Is my strength the strength of stones? 1 Or is my flesh made of bronze? 1
Job 12:2“No doubt you are the people; 1 wisdom will die with you. 1
Job 27:12See, all of you have seen this yourselves; 1 why then have you spoken all this nonsense? 1
Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the weak hands, and steady the knees that shake. 1
Isaiah 41:5The isles have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; 1 they approach and come. 1
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 →