New American Standard Bible 2020
Job 26:3
3What advice you have given to one without wisdom! What helpful insight you have abundantly 1provided!
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 responded, 2“What a help you are to the weak! You have saved the arm without strength! What advice you have given to one without wisdom! What helpful insight you have abundantly provided! 4To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit was expressed through you? 5“The departed spirits are made to 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
Cross-references for Job 26:3
- Job 6:13Is it that my help is not within me, And that a good outcome is driven away from me?
- Job 12:3But I have intelligence as well as you; I am not inferior to you. And who does not know such things as these?
- Job 13:5Oh that you would be completely silent, And that it would become your wisdom!
- Job 15:8Do you hear the secret discussion of God, And limit wisdom to yourself?
- Job 17:10But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you.
- Job 32:11“Behold, I waited for your words, I listened to your skillful speech, While you pondered what to say.
- Job 33:3My words are from the integrity of my heart, And my lips speak knowledge sincerely.
- Job 38:2“Who is this who darkens the divine plan By words without knowledge?
- Psalms 49:1Hear this, all peoples; Listen, all inhabitants of the world,
- Psalms 71:15My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness And of Your salvation all day long; For I do not know the art of writing.
- Proverbs 8:6Listen, for I will speak noble things; And the opening of my lips will reveal right things.
- Acts 20:20how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was beneficial, and 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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Notes
- 1. Job 26:3 Lit made known ↩
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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