Job 26:4
Whom hast thou taught speech? Whose inspiration hath come from thee?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
In Context
3How hast thou given counsel to one of no-wisdom? or, effective wisdom, abundantly made known?
5The shades, tremble, beneath the waters and their inhabitants;
Cross References
1 Kings 22:23Now, therefore, lo! Yahweh hath suffered a spirit of falsehood to be put into the mouth of all these thy prophets. But, Yahweh himself, hath spoken concerning thee, calamity.
Job 32:18For I am full of discourse, The spirit in my bosom, presseth me on.
1 Corinthians 12:3Wherefore, I give you to know—that, no one, in God’s Spirit speaking, saith—Accursed Jesus! and, no one, can say—Lord Jesus! save in [the] Holy Spirit.
Revelation 16:13And I saw, out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false-prophet, three impure spirits, as frogs;
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 →