Christian Standard Bible
Job 26:3
3How you have counseled the unwise and abundantly provided 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: 2How you have helped the powerless and delivered the arm that is weak! How you have counseled the unwise and abundantly provided insight! 4With whom did you speak these words? Whose breath came out of your mouth? 5The departed spirits tremble beneath the waters and all that inhabit them.
Read all of Job 26Job 26:3 word by word
מַה־יָּ֭עַצְתָּ לְלֹ֣א חָכְמָ֑ה וְ֝תוּשִׁיָּ֗ה לָרֹ֥ב הוֹדָֽעְתָּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 26:3
- Job 6:13Since I cannot help myself, the hope for success has been banished from me.
- Job 12:3But I also have a mind like you; I am not inferior to you. Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?
- Job 13:5If only you would shut up and let that be your wisdom!
- Job 15:8Do you listen in on the council of God, or have a monopoly on wisdom?
- Job 17:10But come back and try again, all of you. I will not find a wise man among you.
- Job 32:11Look, I waited for your conclusions; I listened to your insights as you sought for words.
- Job 33:3My words come from my upright heart, and my lips speak with sincerity what they know.
- Job 38:2Who is this who obscures my counsel with ignorant words?
- Psalms 49:1Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all who inhabit the world,
- Psalms 71:15My mouth will tell about your righteousness and your salvation all day long, though I cannot sum them up.
- Proverbs 8:6Listen, for I speak of noble things, and what my lips say is right.
- Acts 20:20You know that I did not hesitate to proclaim anything to you that was profitable and to teach 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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