New King James Version
Job 26:3
3How have you counseled one who has no wisdom? And how have you declared sound advice to many?
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 Living Translation (NLT)How you have enlightened my stupidity! What wise advice you have offered!
Context of Job 26:3
1But Job answered and said: 2“How have you helped him who is without power? How have you saved the arm that has no strength? How have you counseled one who has no wisdom? And how have you declared sound advice to many? 4To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came from you? 5“The dead tremble, Those under the waters and those inhabiting 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 my help not within me? And is success driven from me?
- Job 12:3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Indeed, who does not know such things as these?
- Job 13:5Oh, that you would be silent, And it would be your wisdom!
- Job 15:8Have you heard the counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- Job 17:10“But please, come back again, all of you, For I shall not find one wise man among you.
- Job 32:11Indeed I waited for your words, I listened to your reasonings, while you searched out what to say.
- Job 33:3My words come from my upright heart; My lips utter pure knowledge.
- Job 38:2“Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge?
- Psalms 49:1Hear this, all peoples; Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
- Psalms 71:15My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness And Your salvation all the day, For I do not know their limits.
- Proverbs 8:6Listen, for I will speak of excellent things, And from the opening of my lips will come right things;
- Acts 20:20how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught 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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