Job 26:2
Whom helpest thou? him that hath no power? sauest thou the arme that hath no strength?
Geneva Bible 1599
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
3Whome counsellest thou? him that hath no wisedome? thou shewest right well as the thing is.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:27And at noone Eliiah mocked them, and said, Crye loude: for he is a god: either he talketh or pursueth his enemies, or is in his iourney, or it may be that he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Job 6:12Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brasse?
Job 12:2In deede because that ye are the people onely, wisedome must dye with you.
Job 27:12Beholde, all ye your selues haue seene it: why then doe you thus vanish in vanitie?
Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the weake handes, and comfort the feeble knees.
Isaiah 41:5The yles sawe it, and did feare, and the ends of the earth were abashed, drew neere, and came.
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 →