Job 26:3
How have you counselled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
2“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
4To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?
Cross References
Job 12:2“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
Job 13:5Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
Job 17:10But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man amongst you.
Job 33:3My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.
Job 38:2“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Psalms 71:15My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its 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 →