New English Translation
Job 26:3
3How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your 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 replied: 2“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength! How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight! 4To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth? 5“The dead tremble – those beneath the waters and all that live in 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 6:13Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?
- Job 12:3I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
- Job 13:5If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
- Job 15:8Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- Job 17:10“But turn, all of you, and come now! I will not find a wise man among you.
- Job 32:11Look, I waited for you to speak; I listened closely to your wise thoughts,while you were searching for words.
- Job 33:3My words come from the uprightness of my heart, and my lips will utter knowledge sincerely.
- Job 38:2“Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?
- Psalms 49:1Listen to this, all you nations! Pay attention, all you inhabitants of the world!
- Psalms 71:15I will tell about your justice, and all day long proclaim your salvation, though I cannot fathom its full extent.
- Proverbs 8:6Listen, for I will speak excellent things, and my lips will utter what is right.
- Acts 20:20You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from 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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