Job 26:4

To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?

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To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

In Context

3How have you counselled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?

5Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:23Now therefore, behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets, and the LORD has spoken evil concerning you.

Job 32:18For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constrains me.

1 Corinthians 12:3Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit (o. pneuma) of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit. (o. pneuma)

Revelation 16:13And I saw three unclean spirits (o. pneuma) like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

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 →

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