Berean Standard Bible
Job 26:3
3How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
Job 26:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
- New International Version (NIV)What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!
- English Standard Version (ESV)How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
- New King James Version (NKJV)How have you counseled one who has no wisdom? And how have you declared sound advice to many?
Context of Job 26:3
1Then Job answered: 2“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble! How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight! 4To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you? 5The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
Read all of Job 26Job 26:3 word by word
מַה־יָּ֭עַצְתָּ לְלֹ֣א חָכְמָ֑ה וְ֝תוּשִׁיָּ֗ה לָרֹ֥ב הוֹדָֽעְתָּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 26:3
- Job 6:13Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?
- Job 12:3But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
- Job 13:5If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!
- Job 15:8Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
- Job 17:10But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
- Job 32:11Indeed, I waited while you spoke; I listened to your reasoning; as you searched for words,
- Job 33:3My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.
- Job 38:2“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
- Psalms 49:1Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,
- Psalms 71:15My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.
- Proverbs 8:6Listen, for I speak of noble things, and the opening of my lips will reveal right.
- Acts 20:20I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,
Commentaries on Job 26:3
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? - As he had undertaken to give counsel to another, and to suggest views that might be adapted to elevate his mind in his depression, and to console him in his sorrows, he had a right to expect more than he had found in his speech. And how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? - The word rendered “the thing as it is” (תשׁיה tûshı̂yâh ) denotes properly a setting upright, uprightness - from…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-14THIRD SERIES. 2-3. without power ... no strength ... no wisdom--The negatives are used instead of the positives, powerlessness, &c., designedly (so Is 31:8; De 32:21). Granting I am, as you say (Job 18:17; 15:2), powerlessness itself, &c. "How hast thou helped such a one?" savest--supportest.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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