New International Version
Job 26:2
2“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
Job 26:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
- English Standard Version (ESV)"How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
- New King James Version (NKJV)“How have you helped him who is without power? How have you saved the arm that has no strength?
- New Living Translation (NLT)“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the weak!
Context of Job 26:2
1Then Job replied: “How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble! 3What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed! 4Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
Read all of Job 26Job 26:2 word by word
מֶה־עָזַ֥רְתָּ לְלֹא־כֹ֑חַ ה֝וֹשַׁ֗עְתָּ זְר֣וֹעַ לֹא־עֹֽז׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 26:2
- Job 12:2“Doubtless you are the only people who matter, and wisdom will die with you!
- 1 Kings 18:27At noon Elijah began to taunt them. “Shout louder!” he said. “Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.”
- Job 4:3Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
- Job 6:25How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?
- Job 16:4I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.
- Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way;
- Isaiah 40:14Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge, or showed him the path of understanding?
- Isaiah 41:5The islands have seen it and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward;
Commentaries on Job 26:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2How hast thou helped him - This seems a species of irony. How wonderfully hast thou counselled the unskilful and strengthened the weak! Alas for you! ye could not give what ye did not possess! In this way the Chaldee understood these verses: "Why hast thou pretended to give succor, when thou art without strength? And save, while thy arm is weak? Why hast thou given counsel, when thou art without understanding? And supposest that thou hast shown the very…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2How hast thou helped him that is without power? - It has been doubted whether this refers to Job himself, the two friends of Bildad, or to the Deity. Rosenmuller. The connection, however, seems to demand that it should be referred to Job himself. It is sarcastical. Bildad had come as a friend and comforter. He had, also, in common with Eliphaz and Zophar, taken upon himself the office of teacher and counsellor. He had regarded Job as manifesting great…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2Job’s friends did not help him (12:2; 16:4). Bildad's claim that innocence was impossible upset Job deeply (10:1–7; 13:3, 13–19; 16:18–21; 19:23–27; 23:2–7).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
In the dictionaries
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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