Christian Standard Bible
Job 26:2
2How you have helped the powerless and delivered the arm that is weak!
Job 26:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
- New International Version (NIV)“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
- English Standard Version (ESV)"How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
- New King James Version (NKJV)“How have you helped him who is without power? How have you saved the arm that has no strength?
Context of Job 26:2
1Then Job answered: How you have helped the powerless and delivered the arm that is weak! 3How you have counseled the unwise and abundantly provided insight! 4With whom did you speak these words? Whose breath came out of your mouth?
Read all of Job 26Job 26:2 word by word
מֶה־עָזַ֥רְתָּ לְלֹא־כֹ֑חַ ה֝וֹשַׁ֗עְתָּ זְר֣וֹעַ לֹא־עֹֽז׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 26:2
- Job 12:2No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!
- 1 Kings 18:27At noon Elijah mocked them. He said, “Shout loudly, for he’s a god! Maybe he’s thinking it over; maybe he has wandered away; or maybe he’s on the road. Perhaps he’s sleeping and will wake up!”
- Job 4:3Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened weak hands.
- Job 6:25How painful honest words can be! But what does your rebuke prove?
- Job 16:4If you were in my place I could also talk like you. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.
- Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the weak hands, steady the shaking knees!
- Isaiah 40:14Who did he consult? Who gave him understanding and taught him the paths of justice? Who taught him knowledge and showed him the way of understanding?
- Isaiah 41:5The coasts and islands see and are afraid, the whole earth trembles. They approach and arrive.
Commentaries on Job 26:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2How hast thou helped him - This seems a species of irony. How wonderfully hast thou counselled the unskilful and strengthened the weak! Alas for you! ye could not give what ye did not possess! In this way the Chaldee understood these verses: "Why hast thou pretended to give succor, when thou art without strength? And save, while thy arm is weak? Why hast thou given counsel, when thou art without understanding? And supposest that thou hast shown the very…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2How hast thou helped him that is without power? - It has been doubted whether this refers to Job himself, the two friends of Bildad, or to the Deity. Rosenmuller. The connection, however, seems to demand that it should be referred to Job himself. It is sarcastical. Bildad had come as a friend and comforter. He had, also, in common with Eliphaz and Zophar, taken upon himself the office of teacher and counsellor. He had regarded Job as manifesting great…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2Job’s friends did not help him (12:2; 16:4). Bildad's claim that innocence was impossible upset Job deeply (10:1–7; 13:3, 13–19; 16:18–21; 19:23–27; 23:2–7).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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