God’s Word Translation
Job 26:3
3You have advised the person who has no wisdom and offered so much assistance.
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 replied ⌞to his friends⌟, 2“You have helped the person who has no power and saved the arm that isn’t strong. You have advised the person who has no wisdom and offered so much assistance. 4To whom have you spoken ⌞these⌟ words, and whose spirit has spoken through you? 5“The souls of the dead tremble beneath the water, and so do the creatures living there.
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 6:13Am I not completely helpless? Haven’t my skills been taken away from me?
- Job 12:3Like you, I have a mind. I am not inferior to you. But who doesn’t know these things?
- Job 13:5I wish you would keep silent. For you, that would be wisdom.
- Job 15:8Did you listen in on God’s council meeting and receive a monopoly on wisdom?
- Job 17:10“But now, all of you, come and try again! I won’t find one wise man among you.
- Job 32:11I waited for you to speak. I listened for you to share your understanding until you could find the right words.
- Job 33:3My words are straight from the heart, and I sincerely speak the knowledge that is on my lips.
- Job 38:2“Who is this that belittles my advice with words that do not show any knowledge ⌞about it⌟?
- Psalms 49:1Listen to this, all you people. Open your ears, all who live in the world—
- Psalms 71:15My mouth will tell about your righteousness, about your salvation all day long. Even then, it is more than I can understand.
- Proverbs 8:6Listen! I am speaking about noble things, and my lips will say what is right.
- Acts 20:20I didn’t avoid telling you anything that would help you, and I didn’t avoid teaching 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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