English Standard Version
Job 26:3
3How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
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!
- New King James Version (NKJV)How have you counseled one who has no wisdom? And how have you declared sound advice to many?
- New Living Translation (NLT)How you have enlightened my stupidity! What wise advice you have offered!
Context of Job 26:3
1Then Job answered and said: 2"How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength! How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! 4With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you? 5The dead tremble under the waters and their inhabitants.
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 6:13Have I any help in me, when resource is driven from me?
- Job 12:3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
- Job 13:5Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
- Job 15:8Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- Job 17:10But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
- Job 32:11"Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say.
- Job 33:3My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
- Job 38:2"Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
- Psalms 49:1Hear this, all peoples! Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
- Psalms 71:15My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.
- Proverbs 8:6Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right,
- Acts 20:20how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public 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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