New Living Translation
Job 26:3
3How you have enlightened my stupidity! What wise advice you have offered!
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 spoke again: 2“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the weak! How you have enlightened my stupidity! What wise advice you have offered! 4Where have you gotten all these wise sayings? Whose spirit speaks through you? 5“The dead tremble— those who live beneath the waters.
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 6:13No, I am utterly helpless, without any chance of success.
- Job 12:3Well, I know a few things myself— and you’re no better than I am. Who doesn’t know these things you’ve been saying?
- Job 13:5If only you could be silent! That’s the wisest thing you could do.
- Job 15:8Were you listening at God’s secret council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
- Job 17:10“As for all of you, come back with a better argument, though I still won’t find a wise man among you.
- Job 32:11“I have waited all this time, listening very carefully to your arguments, listening to you grope for words.
- Job 33:3I speak with all sincerity; I speak the truth.
- Job 38:2“Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words?
- Psalms 49:1Listen to this, all you people! Pay attention, everyone in the world!
- Psalms 71:15I will tell everyone about your righteousness. All day long I will proclaim your saving power, though I am not skilled with words.
- Proverbs 8:6Listen to me! For I have important things to tell you. Everything I say is right,
- Acts 20:20I never shrank back from telling you what you needed to hear, either publicly or in your homes.
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
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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