Job 26:2
“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
World English 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 have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
Cross References
1 Kings 18:27At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”
Job 6:12Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze?
Job 12:2“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
Job 27:12Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.
Isaiah 41:5The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come.
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 →