Job 26:3
How have you counselled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2How have you helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength?
4To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?
Cross References
Job 12:2No doubt but all of you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Job 13:5O that all of you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Job 17:10But as for you all, do all of you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
Job 33:3My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
Job 38:2Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Psalms 71:15My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
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 →