Tree of Life Version
Job 26:3
3How you have counseled the one without wisdom and revealed your abundant insights!
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 and said: 2“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm without strength! How you have counseled the one without wisdom and revealed your abundant insights! 4To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit has come from your mouth? 5“The dead tremble— those beneath the water 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 there no help within me; has not success been banished from me?
- Job 12:3But I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know these things?
- Job 13:5If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
- Job 15:8Do you listen in on God’s counsel? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- Job 17:10“But turn, all of you, come now! I will not find a wise man among you.
- Job 32:11Look, I waited for your words, I listened to your reasoning; while you were searching for words
- Job 33:3My words are from my upright heart; my lips speak sincerely what they know.
- Job 38:2“Who is this, who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?
- Psalms 49:1For the music director: a psalm of the sons of Korah.
- Psalms 71:15My mouth will recount Your justice and Your salvation all day, though I do not know the sum of them.
- Proverbs 8:6Listen, for I speak excellent things, and my lips utter right things.
- Acts 20:20I did not shrink back from proclaiming to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly as well as 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
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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